Review of Boy Culture

Boy Culture (2006)
4/10
It was just okay.
14 January 2008
Warning: Spoilers
This movie was okay, but not all that. It was mildly interesting. If you wanted to see Daryl Stephens in another role besides Noah, or if you're just feeling really gay, then it could be somewhat satisfying. I thought the four actors were good and played their characters well (considering what they had to work with), but the script wasn't very good and the plot was lacking. It tried to have a point but just didn't quite make it.

And boy did everything work out so conveniently for Andrew (Daryl's character) when he took X to see his family and go to his ex-girlfriend's wedding! They weren't sure how they'd go: as roommates, as friends, or as a new item, because Andrew had not officially come out to his family. The parents welcomed them in as a couple, the mother told them to share Andrew's bed in his old room, the mother told Andrew she'd known all along, the father questioned X like a fiancé just to confirm that he had financial security (X told him he was an investor, which he was, but he left out that he initially made the cash from hustling). The girlfriend was happy to see Andrew, and her newly out gay brother was thrilled to see him (this is the brother Andrew had thought was straight and wanted to get to during the time he dated her). That whole sequence was a fantasy-dream-come-true coming out.

The plot movements and the character relationships had a lot of false starts. In many instances the story would move in a direction, but the writer didn't follow through all the way with what he'd started. So I was left feeling disappointed or let down with a lot of the small sub-plots within the movie, and with the general plot.
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