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House of Boys

2009

Drama / Music / Romance

2
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 56% · 9 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 49% · 100 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.5/10 10 1473 1.5K

Plot summary

It is 1984. Frank is a determined English teenager who runs away from high school to find an alternative gay lifestyle in Amsterdam. He finds a home and a job at the "House of Boys", a bar-cum-brothel run by a strict Madame who has an eye for what his punters crave. Frank works his way up from barman to on-stage dancer and falls in love with some of his housemates, Jake. The first intimations of what is described as 'the gay cancer', casts a long shadow over Frank's tight-knit group of friends. Yet despite the troubles that cloud the hopes and dreams of young Frank, his perseverance, along with support from a willing doctor, will carry him through.

Top cast

Stephen Fry as Dr. Marsh
Joanna Scanlan as Nurse Suzanne
Linda Evans as Krystle Carrington
Ronald Reagan as Self - President of the United States
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1.06 GB
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English 2.0
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24 fps
1 hr 57 min
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1.96 GB
1920*1080
English 2.0
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24 fps
1 hr 57 min
Seeds 20

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by ryanjchild 7 / 10

A sweet, sad film

I liked this film a lot. Admittedly there were some questionable parts, but overall this film does what it sets out to; reel you in with many bare torsos and shove reality in your face with a hard knock, amid a love story that ultimately has you caring about it by the end.Layke Anderson is wonderful in this. I haven't seen him in anything else, but he's fantastic as the rebellious party-boy who finds his own heart. It's a shame he finds it with Benn Northover (whom I haven't seen in anything else either), who pales in comparison to pretty much every other performer in this film. He seems an odd choice next to Anderson, and his character is lost among the other, more colourful ones.Udo Kier and Stephen Webb are good for the laughs, which are few, but effective.House of Boys pulls no punches in depicting disease and the effects it can cause; this may be unsettling for some, but you'll be glad you sat through it. It's not life-changing, but see it for Anderson's performance, and Udo Kier in drag. Obviously.
Reviewed by vauxtc 5 / 10

Clichéd but moving

Reviewed by johannes2000-1 5 / 10

Potentially good story spoiled by too much drama!

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