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Boys

  • 19961996
  • PG-13PG-13
  • 1h 26m
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4.9/10
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Winona Ryder in Boys (1996)
Patty is thrown off her horse and knocked out. Students from a boys' boarding school find her and smuggle her to John's room at the school as cops are looking for her at home.
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25 y.o. Patty is thrown off her horse and knocked out. Students from a boys' boarding school find her and smuggle her to John's room at the school as cops are looking for her at home.25 y.o. Patty is thrown off her horse and knocked out. Students from a boys' boarding school find her and smuggle her to John's room at the school as cops are looking for her at home.25 y.o. Patty is thrown off her horse and knocked out. Students from a boys' boarding school find her and smuggle her to John's room at the school as cops are looking for her at home.
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    • Stacy Cochran
    • Stacy Cochran
    • James Salter(short story "Twenty Minutes")
  • Stars
    • Winona Ryder
    • Lukas Haas
    • John C. Reilly
    • Stacy Cochran
    • Stacy Cochran
    • James Salter(short story "Twenty Minutes")
  • Stars
    • Winona Ryder
    • Lukas Haas
    • John C. Reilly
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    • 34User reviews
    • 22Critic reviews
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    Winona Ryder
    Winona Ryder
    • Patty Vare
    Lukas Haas
    Lukas Haas
    • John Baker Jr
    John C. Reilly
    John C. Reilly
    • Officer Kellogg Curry
    James Le Gros
    James Le Gros
    • Fenton Ray
    • (as James LeGros)
    Skeet Ulrich
    Skeet Ulrich
    • Bud Valentine
    Matt Malloy
    Matt Malloy
    • Bartender
    Spencer Vrooman
    • John Murphy
    Charlie Hofheimer
    Charlie Hofheimer
    • John Cooke
    Bill Sage
    Bill Sage
    • Officer Bill Martone
    Marty McDonough
    Marty McDonough
    • Teacher
    Wiley Wiggins
    Wiley Wiggins
    • John Phillips
    Vivienne Shub
    • Frances
    Russell Young
    • John Van Slieder
    Christopher Pettiet
    Christopher Pettiet
    • Jon Heinz
    Catherine Keener
    Catherine Keener
    • Jilly
    Maddie Corman
    Maddie Corman
    • Liz Curry
    Andy Davis
    • Jonathan Marco
    Jessica Harper
    Jessica Harper
    • Mrs. John Baker
      • Stacy Cochran
      • Stacy Cochran
      • James Salter(short story "Twenty Minutes")
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    • Trivia
      Edward Furlong was considered for the role of John Baker.
    • Goofs
      Before Baker falls asleep away from the fair, the trees closest to him have all of their leaves. In the morning, both are almost bare.
    • Quotes

      Patty: Look, I don't want to keep you from your school work...

      John Baker Jr: I drop out of school Patty, or at least I tried to... God, are you always like this?

      Patty: Ya, I'm always like this.

    • Connections
      Featured in At the Movies: Twister/Captives/Boys/Dead Man/Cold Comfort Farm (1996)
    • Soundtracks
      She's Not There
      Written by Rod Argent

      Performed by The Cruel Sea

      Courtesy of Polydor Records Australia -

      Red Eye Records/A&M Records, Inc.

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    7/10
    I liked this movie...
    I liked this movie. Imagine a teenager, named John, the typical guy who goes to the last year of high school and doesn't quite know what to do with his life. Then, one day, he finds a beautiful woman lying on the floor in a field who, apparently, is on the run for something she did and takes her to his room. It's a boarding school, he might get kicked out, but he doesn't care; he just wants to help her. The look on his face when the woman first wakes up and the teenager walks towards her, is the first sign of a magical performance by Lukas Hass; it's a look that combines the excitement of having this woman in his bed and the curiosity of wanting to know what she might have done.

    The woman is called Patty Vare, played by the wonderful Winona Ryder in the kind of role she knows by heart but never forgets to add new elements to. Here, besides appearing to be somewhere other than the real world (she fell off a horse before John found her and doesn't remember much), she masters the 'look'; that seductive look only she can achieve and makes anyone go crazy to the point that they would do anything for her. Well, at least that's the effect it had on John in the movie…And on me, of course.

    But don't get things wrong. I personally don't think "Boys" is a romantic movie, even if it was writer/director Stacy Cochran's intention. I would call it some kind of an 'age analysis'. Yes, there are romance related moments that make you smile because Winona is an expert on the subject, but this time her character Patty is an expert too: on men. So the study the film tries to make is what can happen when a woman of Patty's experience meets a kid like John in an extreme situation.

    That's why Cochran shows us flashbacks of what happened to Patty before meeting John; they're necessary for us to know the kind of woman she is. On the other hand, we don't know anything about John but the fact that he has a bad relationship with his father (a respectable Chris Cooper). But we don't need to know, because we realize when he is with Patty; when we hear what he says and see what he does.

    There's a scene in the town fair, where Patty and John are together in the merry-go-round. The final moment of that scene explains why I liked this movie, and those are the scenes in the movie that work. Not the police sub-plot (led by a convincing John C. Reilly), not John's relationship with his friends at school (although some scenes are good to watch more of Hass' perfect work), not even the conflict with his father.

    There's another scene really worth paying attention too: a chat in a table where a beautiful light from the window makes Patty seem so vulnerable. Luckily for us, this is a movie where we have the final world; about whether we believe the characters or not and about the inconclusive and far-fetched ending. Yes, it may not honor reality itself, but "Boys" honors its title; and I liked that. I liked this movie.
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    • Feb 14, 2008

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    • Release date
      • May 10, 1996 (United States)
      • United States
      • English
      • Spanish
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    • Filming locations
      • Baltimore, Maryland, USA
    • Production companies
      • Touchstone Pictures
      • Interscope Communications
      • Polygram Filmed Entertainment
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    • 1 hour 26 minutes
      • Color
      • Dolby Digital

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