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Boys Cry

2018 1h 35m Drama List
80% Tomatometer 5 Reviews 56% Popcornmeter Fewer than 50 Ratings
Lured by dreams of easy money, two youths get involved with the local mafia and begin a downward spiral toward darkness.

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Jay Weissberg Variety For those still not tired of small-time young Italian gangsters, "Boys Cry" can be considered a solid entry in the genre, but that doesn't mean the script makes anything new out of the usual elements. Mar 5, 2018 Full Review Boyd van Hoeij Hollywood Reporter A knockout. Feb 20, 2018 Full Review Alex Lines Film Inquiry It's hard-edged, elliptical and almost wholly without the comforts of traditional sentimentality (despite what the title might suggest), riding on a formulaic narrative that feels stale, if downright irrelevant. Oct 20, 2018 Full Review Ron Wilkinson It's Just Movies A real-life thriller and a pointed political statement that tells the real story of the victims of organized crime. Rated: 8/10 Jul 3, 2018 Full Review Nikki Baughan Screen International Its simple yet revealing title indicates the dramatic depths into which debut filmmakers, the self-taught twins Damiano and Fabio D'Innocenzo, will dive with such impressive style. Feb 21, 2018 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member Manolo (Andrea Carpenzano) and Mirko (Matteo Olivetti) have been through primary and high school together. They have girlfriends and dead-end jobs delivering pizza. When Mirko accidently runs down a guy, killing him, Manolo tells him to keep going - his dad will know what to do. From that moment their lives change. An accidental hit and run that happens to take out a snitch of the mafia makes them think they've won the lottery when the accident ends in an induction - going from zero to a thousand in a moment making a rags to riches change in their lives. All they have to do is kill and pimp-out underage girls. Mirko's girlfriend asks, 'If you and me broke up would you cry?' When he doesn't answer she says, 'I would'. When a high-risk job comes up the Captain of the mafia knows the stupidity of asking the new recruits to complete what really should be done by an experienced killer. But what have they got to lose? Two kids? Slowly turning into psychos? 'Boys Cry' is about a sickness that slowly eats away the two boys' lives until there's nothing left. The film's blunt and at times boring, like a meaningless life. Even down to the mafia hench men making sauce on the same stove-top as a bubbling concoction of drugs; the every-day in the setting of crime making the crime seem every-day. It's a comment on the value of life. Where the reaction to wrong isn't emotional but a physical sickness. Where empathy is replaced with ambition. 'Boys Cry' isn't a fast-paced thriller, yet it was hard to look away as these two young guys waste their lives and sell their souls because they don't realise what they're losing. Some of the camera work gets creative, focussing on the eyes; panning above to show a map of attack, to distance the action only to grip when the action is filmed inside - simple yet effective. But the film is driven by dialogue, by the conversation between the two friends as they descend into a space where they cease to feel. A good quality slow burner. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/20/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Lured by dreams of easy money, two youths get involved with the local mafia and begin a downward spiral toward darkness.
Director
Damiano D'Innocenzo, Fabio D'Innocenzo
Producer
Agostino Saccà, Giuseppe Soleri, Maria Grazia Saccà
Screenwriter
Damiano D'Innocenzo, Fabio D'Innocenzo
Genre
Drama
Original Language
Italian
Release Date (Streaming)
Apr 4, 2021
Runtime
1h 35m
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