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Boys (1996)

 -  Mystery | Drama | Romance  -  10 May 1996 (USA)
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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 »

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Cast

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Patty Vare
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John Baker Jr
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Officer Kellogg Curry
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Fenton Ray (as James LeGros)
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Bud Valentine
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Bartender
Spencer Vrooman ...
John Murphy
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John Cooke
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Officer Bill Martone
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Teacher
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John Phillips
Vivienne Shub ...
Frances
Russell Young ...
John Van Slieder
Christopher Pettiet ...
Jon Heinz
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Jilly
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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. Written by Mattias Thuresson

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No one stays innocent forever.

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Mystery | Drama | Romance

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Rated PG-13 for language, some sexuality and drug content | See all certifications »
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10 May 1996 (USA)  »

Also Known As:

The Girl You Want  »

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$516,350 (USA)
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1.85 : 1
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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. See more »

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.
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Attractive leads, but where's the beef?
24 September 1999 | by (Cherry Hill, New Jersey) – See all my reviews

"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.


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