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Boys

1996, Movie, PG-13, 88 mins

BOYS
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John (Lukas Haas) is a miserable high school senior who hates his fancy-pants boarding school, his parents, his friends and the life that awaits him after graduation: helping his dad (Chris Cooper) manage a string of Piggly-Wiggly stores. So when Patty (Winona Ryder) just about literally falls into his lap -- she's thrown from her horse in a nearby field -- it's no wonder that he sees her as an angel, come to liberate him from a life of quotidian mediocrity. But their tentative romance is threatened by the dark secret she's harboring, which has to do with a missing baseball player in a stolen Porsche. What begins as an edgy examination of sheltered, selfish kids making stupid choices devolves into a ludicrously mannered celebration of adolescent rebellion. But before it does, former child star Haas (WITNESS) manages to evoke a scary world of thwarted appetites and half-understood emotions. Surprisingly, Ryder is the least interesting thing on display. leave a comment
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