Boys (1996)

Director:

Stacy Cochran

Writers:

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

Release Date:

10 May 1996 (USA)

Genre:

Mystery | Drama | Romance

Tagline:

No one stays innocent forever.

Plot:

Patty Vare falls off a horse and is found unconscious by prep school student John Baker. He takes her to his dorm...

Plot Keywords:

Prep School | Teenage Boy | County Fair | Baseball Player | One Word Title

Cast

Winona Ryder	...	Patty Vare
Lukas Haas	...	John Baker Jr
John C. Reilly	...	Officer Kellogg Curry
James LeGros	...	Fenton Ray
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

Also Known As:

The Girl You Want (USA) (working title)

MPAA:

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

Runtime:

86 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English | Spanish

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Argentina:13 | Germany:12 | Australia:M | USA:PG-13 | Singapore:PG | Iceland:12

Filming Locations:

Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Company:

Interscope Communications

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.

Quotes:

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

Soundtrack:

TELL HER THIS

Flushable

"Boys" tells a flimsy story to which Cochran tries to add mystery by keeping information from the audience and revealing it piecemeal via flashback. Cheap shot. Ryder is found unconscious, after being thrown from horseback, by a boarding school student (Haas) who takes her to his room (yeah, right), instead of the obvious choice, the hospital. You know, HOSPITAL...where you take injured people for professional medical care. Duh. Anyway, this dumbassed flick has a list of negatives too long to go into here. File "Boys" in the boys room and don't forget to flush. (D)