Boys (1996)

Patty Vare falls off a horse and is found unconscious by prep school student John Baker. He takes her to his dorm. As he quickly discovers, she is hiding from something. For John this ... See full summary »

Director:

Stacy Cochran

Writers:

Stacy Cochran, James Salter (short story "Twenty Minutes")

Stars:

Winona Ryder, Lukas Haas, John C. Reilly

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Winona Ryder	...	Patty Vare
Lukas Haas	...	John Baker Jr
John C. Reilly	...	Officer Kellogg Curry
James Le Gros	...	Fenton Ray (as James LeGros)
Skeet Ulrich	...	Bud Valentine
Matt Malloy	...	Bartender
Spencer Vrooman	...	John Murphy
Charlie Hofheimer	...	John Cooke
Bill Sage	...	Officer Bill Martone
Marty McDonough	...	Teacher
Wiley Wiggins	...	John Phillips
Vivienne Shub	...	Frances
Russell Young	...	John Van Slieder
Christopher Pettiet	...	Jon Heinz
Catherine Keener	...	Jilly

Storyline

Patty Vare falls off a horse and is found unconscious by prep school student John Baker. He takes her to his dorm. As he quickly discovers, she is hiding from something. For John this becomes a road to maturity and for Patty it's a way back to love and tenderness.

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Plot Keywords:

baseball player | college | father son relationship | drowning | classroom | 

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Taglines:

No one stays innocent forever.

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Genres:

Mystery | Drama | Romance

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG-13 for language, some sexuality and drug content

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English Spanish

Release Date:

10 May 1996 (USA)

Also Known As:

The Girl You Want

Filming Locations:

Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Box Office

Gross:

$516,350 (USA)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Interscope Communications, Polygram Filmed Entertainment, Touchstone Pictures

Technical Specs

Runtime:

86 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Several shots take place in a coffee shop/dining area of the school. The location used was the real coffee shop of St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland, normally painted a modest off-white. The filmmakers had the coffe shop painted a bizarre orange color for the production, then painted back to white after they were finished.

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Quotes

John Baker Jr: God, are you always like this?
Patty: Ya, I'm always like this.

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Soundtracks

"THE SECRET"
Written by David Wyndorf (as Dave Wyndorff)
Performed by Monster Magnet
Courtesy of A&M Records, Inc.

User Reviews

Attractive leads, but where's the beef?

"Boys" is proof positive that two young, attractive leads, Wynona Ryder and Lukas Haas, can't always compensate for a complex, uninvolving plot. Make no mistake, Ryder and Haas are both as good as they can be, given the material, and their love scenes, particularly at the carnival, do generate a goodly ammount of heat. But, on the whole, the story is far too complex and uninvolving. By the time the central mystery is unraveled, you find yourself asking what all the fuss was about. In short, a dynamic team wasted on a trite picture.