Fresh
Actor Derek Magyar makes an impressive feature debut in this somber video drama about a financially savvy but emotionally distant male escort.
Andrea Gronvall, Chicago Reader
Boy Culture
Sex pays. Love costs.
2006 · 1h 28m · Unrated
Drama, Romance
Directed by
Q. Allan Brocka
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Boy Culture
Overview
A successful gay male escort describes in a series of confessions his tangled romantic relationships with his two roommates and an older, enigmatic male client.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
69%
Tomatometer
Rotten
If anything about this scenario sounds remotely interesting, it's not.
Jonathan Padget, Washington Post
Fresh
Boy Culture is an undemanding but sufficiently engaging serving of smut and sentiment. As such, it reclaims territory that queer cinema has largely ceded to TV shows like Queer as Folk, The L Word and Six Feet Under.
Jason Anderson, Globe and Mail
Fresh
It's a better-than-average gay relationship film, largely because neither plot mechanics nor the same old camp intrude much.
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune
Fresh
Despite cliches, film does click.
Tom Long, Detroit News
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