Dream Boy (2008) 6.4
Chronicles the relationship between two gay teenagers in the rural south in the late '70s. Director:James Bolton |
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Dream Boy (2008) 6.4
Chronicles the relationship between two gay teenagers in the rural south in the late '70s. Director:James Bolton |
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Stephan Bender | ... |
Nathan Davies
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Thomas Jay Ryan | ... |
Harland Davies
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Diana Scarwid | ... |
Vivian Davies
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Tom Gilroy | ... |
Preacher John
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Maximillian Roeg | ... |
Roy
(as Max Roeg)
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Randy Wayne | ... |
Burke
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Owen Beckman | ... |
Randy
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Rooney Mara | ... |
Evelyn
(as Tricia Mara)
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Rickie Lee Jones | ... |
Roy's Mother
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Nick Ericson | ... |
Brother Will
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Shy and withdrawn, Nathan (played by Stephan Bender) is new to his school, unusually smart (a grade ahead) and the silent tension at home nearly unbearable. Mom, Dad, and Nathan have moved constantly, town after town, landing, inexplicably, in god-fearing "St. Francesville". Roy (played by the multi-talented Max Roeg), a year older than Nathan, confident and hard-working, drives the bus to their school while a friendship blooms between them into a relationship that is fraught with confusion and yearning. But secrets pick at the relationship, the unspoken rules of their angst-driven interactions unravel as Nathan's world again comes crashing inwards. Tension crescendos as shame and terror, stress and disaster all compete to immobilize and destroy both of their worlds. Written by Christopher Panoply
I enjoyed the atmospheric, thoughtful and sensitive slow pace of this movie, but the dialog in important parts, and especially during the climax, was drowned out by some of the worst, most inappropriate, extremely annoying, repetitive, cloying and very loud music I've ever heard in a movie soundtrack.
The dialog volume should have been turned up and the music _way_ down in this movie, and absent altogether in parts where the dialog was of utmost importance for revealing the plot. As it was, there were parts in which I could only guess what was being murmured because the music was deafening by comparison. I almost stopped watching this movie, despite liking the story and characters, specifically because of the awful "background" music that was much too often in the close foreground. Extremely poor choices regarding the music. Everything else was fine.