Boys

Theatrical release poster

Directed by
Stacy Cochran

Produced by
Paul Feldsher
Peter Frankfurt
Erica Huggins

Written by
Stacy Cochran
James Salter (story)

Starring
Winona Ryder
Lukas Haas
John C. Reilly
James LeGros
Skeet Ulrich
Chris Cooper

Music by
Stewart Copeland

Cinematography
Robert Elswit

Editing by
Camilla Toniolo

Distributed by
Touchstone Pictures (USA)
PolyGram Filmed Entertainment (foreign markets)

Release date(s)
10 May 1996

Running time
86 minutes

Country
 United States

Language
English, Spanish

IMDb profile

Boys is a 1996 American film starring Winona Ryder and Lukas Haas. The film was originally titled The Girl You Want. The film earned $516,349 in the United States box office. It is based on a short story called 20 Minutes by James Salter.

The film was shot in Baltimore, Maryland and Annapolis, Maryland, USA.

Contents

• 1 Plot
• 2 Reception
• 3 Official soundtrack
• 4 External links

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Plot

John Baker Jr. (Lukas Haas) is a boy bored with his upper class life and the prospect of his future running the family mini-mart chain. He no longer sees the point in school stating whats the difference if he gets a zero attendance for being 3 minutes late or skipping the whole class so he might as well skip the class. Now close to graduating from boarding school all his life is turned upside down when he rescues a beautiful, 25 year old woman Patty Vare (Winona Ryder) with a secret. After repeated statements that she won’t go see someone, he hides her in his dorm room and the two begin a romantic voyage of self-discovery. this is not without its problems as other boys in the dorm quickly find out she is being hidden in his room, leading up to a dramatic confrontation with Haas’ close friends were his ‘best friend’ becomes enraged and punches a wall breaking his hand, while the two continue to ague over the reason as to why Haas has hidden her in his room. Throughout the movie there is continuous flashbacks of Ryder’s past showing her with a famous baseball player who she meets and steals a car with, leading up to a drunken car crash and his death (which authorities are searching for Ryder to question about). By the end of the movie Ryder has admitted all this to Haas and informed the authorities where the body and the car are (as they crashed into a river). At the police station both Haas and Ryder begin to say goodbye when they unexpectedly jump into an elevator to escape from Haas’ controlling father, and drive off with a car Haas had earlier stolen from the school.

Reception

“Boys is a low-rent, dumbed-down version of Before Sunrise, with a rent-a-plot substituting for clever dialogue.” -Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times .

Official soundtrack

The soundtrack to the film was released on April 9, 1996.

1. “She’s Not There” – Cruel Sea
2. “Alright” – Cast
3. “Gotta Know Right Now” – Smoking Popes
4. “Honeysimple” – Scarce
5. “Wildwood” (Sheared Wood Mix) – Paul Weller, remixed by Portishead
6. “Colored Water” – Orbit
7. “Sad & Beautiful World” – Sparklehorse
8. “Fading Fast” – Kelly Willis
9. “Tell Her This” – Del Amitri
10. “If I Didn’t Love You” – Squeeze
11. “Inside” – Slider
12. “Wait For The Sun” – Supergrass
13. “Belly Laugh” – Compulsion
14. “Begging You” – Stone Roses
15. “Evade Chums” – Stewart Copeland

External links

• Boys (1996 film) at the Internet Movie Database

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