Boys Life: Three Stories of Love, Lust, and Liberation (1994) 드라마 | 미국 | 91 분
감독 : Robert Lee King, Raoul O'Connell 출연 : James Andrews, Mary Beth Aylesworth, Mike Barbour, Steve Bilich 등급 : 해외 NR 언어 : 영어 Plot Keywords : Coming Of Age | Homosexual | Sexuality | Coming Out | Gay
This article is about the 1995 film compilation of three short subjects. For other uses of the title, see Boys' Life (disambiguation) Boys Life is a compilation of three 30-minute short subject films about being gay in America.
A high school student in "Pool Days" finds excitement in his health club job. In "A Friend of Dorothy," a college freshman hopes his handsome roommate is also gay. And in "The Disco Years," Tom is crushed when the tennis player with whom he had a fling leaves him for a girl and joins an openly homophobic crowd.
Each of the three short films in this collection presents a young gay man at the threshold of adulthood. In "Pool Days," Justin is a 17-year old Bethesda lad, hired as the evening life guard at a fitness center. In the course of the summer, he realizes and embraces that he's gay. In "A Friend of Dorothy," Winston arrives from upstate for his freshman year at NYU. He has to figure out, with some help from Anne, a hometown friend, how to build a social life as a young gay man in the city. In "The Disco Years," Tom looks back on 1978, the year in high school that he came out of the closet after one joyful and several painful encounters....
