Review of Dream Boy (2008) by Gustavo G — 12 Apr 2010
One of my favorite movies is 'Black Widow', which stars favorite actor Debra Winger--and Theresa Russell, mother of Max Roeg, the star of this movie. He is the reason to see this film, a gay teen romance mash-up with Southern Gothic and a dash of post-murder magic realism.
The cliche climax is set in a maybe-haunted plantation house. Max Roeg is attractive physically and emotionally, delivers his lines convincingly, has great hair--and gives off some of his mother's appealing feral quality.
Diana Scarwid and Ricky Lee Jones are good in small roles. The movie otherwise manages to be both over- and under-acted, a feat I would have thought hard to bring off, but this film achieves it. Particularly terrible: the other male ingenue and the actor who plays his sexually-abusive-when-drunk father.
This review of Dream Boy (2008) was written by Gustavo G on 12 Apr 2010.
Dream Boy has generally received positive reviews.
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