Dream Boy
(2008)
★ 6.1 IMDb · 126 votes
Year: 2008
Runtime: 88 мин
Country: United States of America
Director: James Bolton
Cast: Stephan Bender, Томас Джей Райан, Дайана Скаруид, Tom Gilroy, Maximillian Roeg, Руни Мара, Рэнди Уэйн, Owen Beckman, Rickie Lee Jones, Nick Ericson
Plot
The story of Nathan, a young teenager who tries to flourish in a romantic relationship with neighbour Roy. The two young men will have to face the brutal reality of the rural south of the United States in the late 1970s.
Shy and withdrawn, Nathan (played by Stephan Bender) is new to his school, unusually smart (a grade ahead) and the silent tension at home nearly unbearable. Mom, Dad, and Nathan have moved constantly, town after town, landing, inexplicably, in god-fearing "St. Francisville, Louisiana". Roy (played by the multi-talented Max Roeg), a year older than Nathan, confident and hard-working, drives the bus to their school while a friendship blooms between them into a relationship that is fraught with confusion and yearning. But secrets pick at the relationship, the unspoken rules of their angst-driven interactions unravel as Nathan's world again comes crashing inwards. Tension crescendos as shame and terror, stress and disaster all compete to immobilize and destroy both of their worlds.