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The Boys in the Band
Directed by
Joe Mantello
R
2020
2h 1m
Drama
,
Comedy
6.8
85%
74%
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At a birthday party in 1968 New York, a surprise guest and a drunken game leave seven gay friends reckoning with unspoken feelings and buried truths.
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Cast of The Boys in the Band
Jim Parsons
Michael
Zachary Quinto
Harold
Matt Bomer
Donald
Andrew Rannells
Larry
Michael Benjamin Washington
Bernard
Robin de Jesús
Emory
Tuc Watkins
Hank
Charlie Carver
Cowboy Tex
Brian Hutchison
Alan
Brian Dole
Young Bohemian
Marc Basil
Mover #2
Jack O'Connell
Doorman
Walter Cox
Hotel Manager
Tina Fabrique
Knitting Woman
Tyler Miles
Handsome Preppy Man
John DeLuca
Parking Attendant
Julia Parker
Female Neighbor
Paul Chirico
Hank's Stranger
Derrick Simmons
Taxi Driver
The Boys in the Band Ratings & Reviews
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
Half-tantalizing, half-antiquated, but fascinating nonetheless.
RogerEbert.com
Odie Henderson
I prefer, and recommend, the original, but I'm on the fence about this one.
Newsday
Robert Levin
Each actor captures something unique and essential about men who want nothing more than to live their lives on their terms.
Chicago Sun-Times
Richard Roeper
...filled with stingingly vicious repartee as nearly every character depends on cleverness as a defense mechanism.
Entertainment Weekly
Leah Greenblatt
Mantello takes the camera's advantages as they come, zooming in to capture the kind of intimacies and small gestures only film allows.
Rolling Stone
K. Austin Collins
The Boys in the Band isn't always good, but it's a good time.
Vox
Alex Abad-Santos
The new movie left me feeling like I was a watching a well-executed, flawless emulation rather than art that demands to stand on its own.
MovieFreak.com
Sara Michelle Fetters
Quinto provides an instant jolt of electricity I did not see coming.
FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
Claudia Puig
It's definitely of its time, and this [remake] doesn't try to reimagine or update it... But it shows how far we've come on LGBTQ issues in 50 years. It also shows us how far we need to go.
Boston Globe
Matthew Gilbert
It's the cast the kept me hooked, though. Having worked together on stage, the actors bring a strong lived-in feeling to their interplay, but they don't need to project into a theater. They can blend effortlessly.
Pajiba
Kristy Puchko
The Boys In the Band feels cramped and recklessly restless. Perhaps its helmer, Broadway director Joe Mantello, didn't see that as a problem.
ABC News
Peter Travers
With a dynamite cast led by a never-better Jim Parsons, what could have been a dated retelling of a 1968 play about gay men in crisis emerges instead as a funny, fierce and scarily relevant wakeup call to a resurgent threat to marginalized minorities.
CNN.com
Brian Lowry
A Netflix movie that can't entirely shake its slightly claustrophobic stage roots, but which provides a stellar showcase for its actors, especially Jim Parsons as the central provocateur.
TIME Magazine
Stephanie Zacharek
This version, produced by Ryan Murphy and performed by the same cast that appeared in the play's 2018 revival on Broadway, is like an unusually strong telescope, giving us a clear and vivid view into a not-so-distant past.
NPR
Glen Weldon
The Netflix film is content to let Crowley's play remain a perfectly preserved artifact from a bad time, without struggling to impose contemporary parallels or meta-meanings atop it. And that's the right impulse.
New York Times
Glenn Kenny
Zippy and soulful in equal measure.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
Like all great works of art, the story's point has resonances beyond its era and even beyond the specific subject of gay people, generally. It's about what happens when people are marginalized.
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
The ensemble cast, reunited from the 2018 production, is never less than mesmerizing, even in the context of what is essentially a museum piece.
AV Club
Patrick Gomez
Hopefully in another 50 years the story of Boys In The Band will seem woefully antiquated. For now, it's a necessary reminder of how far yet how little we've actually come.
Vanity Fair
Richard Lawson
What Mantello has done with the film is, unfortunately, just as opaque and frustrating as what was on stage.
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