Showboy

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Showboy

2002

1h 30m

Comedy

LGBTQ+

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A documentarian (Lindy Heymann) follows a writer/producer (Christian Taylor) after he gets fired and tries to become a dancer in Las Vegas.

Frank Scheck

The Hollywood Reporter

05/05/2004

This would-be satire isn't funny enough to be entertaining, nor is it clever enough to fool us.

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Kevin Thomas

Los Angeles Times

04/22/2004

3.5/5

Slyly amusing yet poignant.

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Charles Ealy

Dallas Morning News

04/15/2004

B-

Showboy is enjoyable if you're comfortable with the mix of fact and fiction and don't care what's true and what's not.

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Film Threat

12/06/2005

4/5

Jay Antani

Los Angeles Alternative

09/30/2004

3.5/5

a legitimately smart and appealing work

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David Foucher

EDGE Boston

08/27/2004

C-

The most entertaining part of Christian Taylor's "Showboy" is deciphering fact from fiction... and that's not a compliment.

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07/14/2013

Witty, touching, uncomfortable at times, and always funny. This is a clever and unique story about a person too proud to admit failure and the struggles we all face when life hands us lemons. A great independent film. Certainly worth seeing.

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01/23/2010

Best mockumentary since 'Waiting For Guffman' !

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09/03/2009

Duh! Actually, do those who are living outside the Hollywood/ Vegas circle really care? I don't.

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08/25/2009

A quasi-clever hide-and-seek game of reality versus fiction that ultimately reveals itself as not the movie you thought it was going to be when the final credits roll.

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07/02/2009

Half a star, because you can't give less it seems. It says a lot that the main humour of the movie was a semi-blind dog crapping on the protagonist's pillow. This was genuinely supposed to be a documentary? Give me a break! Film school end of 1st year project at best. What a waste of time.

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01/22/2009

its a clever mockumentary!!!

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Synopsis

A documentarian (Lindy Heymann) follows a writer/producer (Christian Taylor) after he gets fired and tries to become a dancer in Las Vegas.

Director: Lindy Heymann, Christian Taylor
Producer: Jason Buchtel
Screenwriter: Christian Taylor, Lindy Heymann, Jason Buchtel
Production Co: Paramount, here! Films
Genre: Comedy, LGBTQ+
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 30, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA): $34.6K
Runtime: 1h 30m
Sound Mix: Surround

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