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  • 2015
  • Not Rated
  • The Film Collaborative
  • 1 h 30 m
  • 2015
  • Not Rated
  • The Film Collaborative
  • 1 h 30 m

Summary In the 1950s, Tab Hunter is America’s Boy Next Door. Nothing, it seems, can damage his skyrocketing career. Nothing, that is, except for the fact that Tab Hunter is secretly gay. Now, Tab Hunter’s secret is out. In Tab Hunter Confidential, the real Tab Hunter shares the whole story of a happy, healthy survivor of Hollywood’s roller coast...

Directed By: Jeffrey Schwarz

Written By: Tab Hunter, Eddie Muller

  • 2015
  • Not Rated
  • The Film Collaborative
  • 1 h 30 m
  • 2015
  • Not Rated
  • The Film Collaborative
  • 1 h 30 m

Tab Hunter Confidential

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 13 Critic Reviews
60
User Score Universal Acclaim Based on 4 User Ratings
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Summary In the 1950s, Tab Hunter is America’s Boy Next Door. Nothing, it seems, can damage his skyrocketing career. Nothing, that is, except for the fact that Tab Hunter is secretly gay. Now, Tab Hunter’s secret is out. In Tab Hunter Confidential, the real Tab Hunter shares the whole story of a happy, healthy survivor of Hollywood’s roller coast...

Directed By: Jeffrey Schwarz

Written By: Tab Hunter, Eddie Muller

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 13 Critic Reviews
60
62% Positive
8 Reviews
31% Mixed
4 Reviews
8% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 13 Critic Reviews
60
62% Positive
8 Reviews
31% Mixed
4 Reviews
8% Negative
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91
Oct 12, 2015
Tab Hunter Confidential is fun and gossipy in the way that great documentaries about Hollywood often are, but it also speaks to a deeper truth about identity and perseverance and the large divide between one's personal and professional life.
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75
Nov 28, 2015
Tab Hunter Confidential is a well-crafted if not particularly deep bio-documentary.
By Richard Roeper FULL REVIEW
75
Oct 16, 2015
Hollywood remains terrified that the hunky male product they’re selling to millions of swooning women might turn out to be gay, and “ruin the fantasy” these fans supposedly covet. One can only wonder if an openly LGBT actor can be as huge today as Tab Hunter was in his day. The verdict is still out on that.
By Odie Henderson FULL REVIEW
70
Oct 13, 2015
The movie follows Hunter's life after leaving the Warners, the bad movies and years on the dinner-theater circuit. And it reveals something stronger: the quiet refusal, beneath Hunter's affable, casual manner, to be anything less than he is, neither the "sigh guy" nor a convenient symbol of gay pride.
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60
Oct 12, 2015
Solid and informative... the affectionate film benefits from plenty of face time with its frank, amiably plain-vanilla subject.
By John DeFore FULL REVIEW
50
Oct 22, 2015
Hunter proves to be an engaging if low-key narrator, whose greatest asset is his refusal to take himself too seriously.
By Stephanie Merry FULL REVIEW
38
Oct 11, 2015
The film lacks perspective beyond a rather limited preoccupation with the details of Hunter's personal life.
By Clayton Dillard FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Allan Glaser Productions, Automat Pictures, Tab Hunter Confidential
Release Date Oct 16, 2015
Duration 1 h 30 m
Rating Not Rated
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Tagline Hollywood's All American Boy Had A Secret
Website http://www.facebook.com/tabhunterconfidential
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Awards

FilmOut San Diego, US
• 3 Wins & 3 Nominations
California Independent Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations

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