Blackmail Boys (2011)
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70% of users liked it
(47 ratings)
After moving to Chicago for art school, Sam (Nathan Adloff, AUDREY THE TRAINWRECK) begins turning tricks to help pay the bills. His longtime, long-distance boyfriend Aaron (Taylor Reed, WRECKED) can't stand to be apart and joins him, determined to find enough work so that Sam can give up having… More After moving to Chicago for art school, Sam (Nathan Adloff, AUDREY THE TRAINWRECK) begins turning tricks to help pay the bills. His longtime, long-distance boyfriend Aaron (Taylor Reed, WRECKED) can't stand to be apart and joins him, determined to find enough work so that Sam can give up having sex for money. When the two decide to tie the knot and move to a state where they can marry, their financial worries intensify... until Aaron spies on Sam with a prominent client (Joe Swanberg, acclaimed director of HANNAH TAKES THE STAIRS and UNCLE KENT), and everything takes a darker turn. Evocatively shot by Adam Wingard (cult director of POP SKULL and A HORRIBLE WAY TO DIE), BLACKMAIL BOYS is a sweet and sexually explicit love story, bending genre with a touch of dark humor. -- (C) ReRun
- Directed By
- Bernard Shumanski, Richard Shumanski
- Written By
- Bernard Shumanski, Richard Shumanski
- Genres
- Gay & Lesbian, Comedy, Mystery & Suspense
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Jan 28, 2011 Limited
Critic Reviews
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Andy Webster, New York Times
Many straight viewers (gay ones, too) may roll their eyes.
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Mark Holcomb, Village Voice
The Shumanski brothers' latest wastes a promising premise by loading up on tender whimsy and skimping on grit.
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Fr. Chris Carpenter, Movie Dearest
Obviously low-budget and the filmmaking technique is crude in spots...(but) there are several twists as well as some humor and social commentary in the script, and I appreciated its unexpected ending.
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Diego Costa, Slant Magazine
Blackmail Boys is more interested in the more obvious gay issues such as marriage equality and religious hypocrisy.
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