Showboy

Hollywood fact and movie fiction merge in this warm and winning "fact-ion" film that hangs all the trappings of a documentary onto a fictional, "what-if" premise. This much is true: British-born Christian Taylor really is a writer-producer for the critically acclaimed HBO series Six Feet Under, who, at a more desperate point in his fledgling career, really did consider becoming a Vegas showboy. The rest of the story is fiction, but it's the kind of movie-make-believe that reveals some tart truths about show business. Co-writer and -director Taylor proceeds from a simple premise: What if that road to the Vegas stage, briefly considered but never taken, somehow ...