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The hero's journey of

three boys' coming out

Boys Life

Three short films

Cleveland Cinematheque

July 21 and 22

Reviewed by David A. Ebbert

Boys Life is a refreshing look by independent filmmakers at the angst that teenagers deal with as they find out who they really are.

him little about the art of courtship. While at college, Winston is immediately drawn to his sexy roommate Tom (Kevin McClatchy). Frustrated by not being able to figure Tom out, Winston gets a little help from Anne, a host of college boys who linger in libraries, parks and bathrooms and from a new friend named Judy Garland, and begins to come out into his own. This film is my personal pick of the three. It is totally believable, the

Boys Life directors Raoul O' Connell (A Friend of Dorothy), Robert Lee King (The Disco Years), and Brian Sloan (Pool Days).

The film is a compilation of three short productions. Brian Sloan's "Pool Days" deals with a young man named Justin (Josh Weinstein), who has just gotten an afterschool job as a lifeguard at the local spa. Justin deals with the fact that he really has not found himself yet and begins to experiment with Vicky (Kimberly Flynn), the excessively flirtatious aerobics instructor who has taken a liking to him.

Justin finds out the not-so-hard way that Vicky is not the one for him and continues to lust after Russell (Nick Poletti), the hunky massage therapist that works out at the spa. Russell begins to put the moves on Justin, making for a somewhat uncomfortable step toward the confrontation with his true sexuality. The acting is somewhat amateurish but generally, the story is believable.

The second short is Raoul O'Connell's “A Friend of Dorothy." This award-winning film tells the story of Winston (Raoul O'Connell), a young gay man who follows his best friend Anne to college in New York City. Years of hiding in his room listening to Barbra Streisand, Madonna, and Cher have taught

acting is good, and the story is most compelling.

The third film is set in the late 1970s. Robert Lee King's "The Disco Years" tells the story of Tom Peters, a gay teenager coming of age in the time of pet rocks, gas lines, and macramé. The film takes the viewer through Tom's sexual awakening in a high school gym class to the beginning of his coming-out process. We see how his involvement with Matt (Russell Scott Lewis), an older classmate, forces Tom to face his own sexuality and enables him to confront the bigotry faced by other gays in the community. Finally, we see that despite his tender, loving relationship with his single-parent mother Melissa (Gwen Welles), Tom must ultimately look elsewhere for the understanding he so badly desires. "The Disco Years" is a hero's journey in which Tom must choose between accepting himself and being accepted by his family and peers.

Boys Life-the title is the name of the Boy Scouts' magazine can be seen at the Cleveland Cinematheque on Friday, July 21 at 9:10 p.m. and Saturday, July 22 at 7:30 p.m.

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