The Boys in the Band
In Harold's birthday party, his friends take him into a telephone game in which they confess the name of whom their love. And it's when their natures and their true selves are revealed.
4 September 1938, Brooklyn, New York, USA
11 October 1935, Virginia, USA
10 October 1937, New York City, New York, USA
12 February 1945, Luleå, Norrbottens län, Sweden
24 November 1938, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
24 March 1930, Rocky Mount, North Carolina, USA
13 October 1936, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
10 August 1940, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
21 February 1940, Dayton, Ohio, USA
10 February 1929, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
21 November 1934, Fort Smith, Arkansas, USA
August 26, 2002
Powerful, painful, and blessed with endlessly quotable dialogue.
March 29, 2009
The characters' pathos and self-loathing were deplorable even in 1970, but the it is significant historically as one of Hollywood's first explicitly gay movies and an early work of Billy Friedkin just before making the Oscar-winner French Connection.
August 18, 2006
a breakthrough film in the gay film genre; but dated by today's standards
August 26, 2005
lively, edgy, groundbreaking
September 05, 2009
The original queer tragicomedy
December 12, 2008
These are not the type of gay boys that you would like to take home.
February 02, 2003
Groundbreaking, yet entertaining too.
November 10, 2008
The sizzle of the bon mot%u2013tossing ensemble, intact from the stage original, is bracing and fuels the film's momentum.
November 29, 2008
A movie that needs to finally be acknowledged -- unsullied -- for the groundbreaking status that it deserves.
