Boys (1996)
Directed by Stacy Cochran
Genres - Drama, Romance, Mystery |
Sub-Genres - Coming-of-Age, Teen Movie |
Release Date - May 10, 1996 (USA - Limited), May 10, 1996 (USA) |
Run Time - 88 min. |
Countries - United States |
MPAA Rating - PG13
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Synopsis by Don Kaye
Boys is a coming-of-age tale about an addled prep school student who nurses a woman back to health after an accident and becomes involved in her cryptic past. John Baker Jr. (Lukas Haas) is a tormented high school senior outcast who's weary of his upper-crust boarding school life and dreads his future as a supermarket chain manager. When he finds Patty Vare (Winona Ryder) unconscious in a field after being thrown from a horse, Baker sees this as an opportunity to break out of his humdrum existence, and he smuggles her into the school to take care of her. The relationship blooms into a somewhat bizarre love affair, as John discovers that Patty is concealing a mysterious secret involving a missing baseball player and a stolen car. Although the film takes a little time to get started, what originates as an analysis of guarded youths making foolish judgments evolves into a celebration of adolescent insurrection.
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boys'-school, damsel-in-distress, missing, rescue, teenagers