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The Boys in the Band

Cast

Kenneth Nelson, Leonard Frey, Peter White, Cliff Gorman View All

Crew

William Friedkin (Director), Mart Crowley (Writer) View All

Release: Mar. 16th, 1970

Runtime: 1 hour, 58 minutes

A witty, perceptive and devastating look at the personal agendas and suppressed revelations swirling among a group of gay men in Manhattan. Harold is celebrating a birthday, and his friend Michael has drafted some other friends to help commemorate the event. As the evening progresses, the alcohol flows, the knives come out, and Michael's demand that the group participate in a devious telephone game, unleashing dormant and unspoken emotions.

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This was a fairly entertaining trip down memory lane. I saw the original movie back when I was quite young. Mostly I remember the character of Harold. This time portrayed ably by Zachary Quinto. J...

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mark f
Of course, even if this film wasn't exactly a revelation at the time, the fact that it was ALL basically about gays and pretty much showed them as being full of the same anxieties and concerns as any other human being did make it a watershed film, at least in American mainstream cinema.

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Gideon58
The Boys in the Band was the ground breaking 1970 film, based on Mart Crowley's play that was probably the first mainstream theatrical film in which most of the characters are homosexual.