DVD
Upcoming Release Calendar
Film Awards & Top 10s By Year
All-Time High Scores
All-Time Low Scores
Recent DVD/Video Releases
58
Adam Resurrected
65
Adoration
42
Aliens in the Attic
56
American Violet
44
Answer Man, The
82
Anvil! The Story of Anvil![]()
58
Away We Go
54
Battle for Terra
55
Casi Divas
63
Cheri
83
Drag Me to Hell![]()
76
Every Little Step
70
Fados
26
Filth and Wisdom
80
Food, Inc.
34
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
67
Girlfriend Experience, The
32
I Love You, Beth Cooper
50
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
81
Il Divo![]()
32
Land of the Lost
74
Lemon Tree
43
Love 'N Dancing
64
Lymelife
50
Management
63
Medicine for Melancholy
56
Monsters vs. Aliens
34
My Life in Ruins
48
Not Forgotten
76
Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation!
50
Nothing Like the Holidays
26
Objective, The
54
Observe and Report
78
O'Horten
42
Orphan
48
Proposal, The
40
Shrink
55
Taking of Pelham 1 2 3, The
35
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
88
Tulpan![]()
66
Unmistaken Child
45
Whatever Works
34
Year One
Stars indicate the most critically-acclaimed movies.
Showboy

Generally unfavorable reviews
Based on 8 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 5 votes
Read user comments
Rate this movie >
Movie Info
Genre(s): Comedy
Written by:
Christian Taylor
Lindy Heymann
Jason Buchtel
Directed by:
Lindy Heymann
Christian Taylor
Release Date:
Theatrical: April 9, 2004
DVD: August 17, 2004
Running Time: 93 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: Not Rated
Starring Lindy Heymann, Adrian Armas, Siegfried Fischbacher, Whoopi Goldberg, Roy Horn, Erich Miller, and Christian Taylor
When Christian Taylor, a writer on HBO's wildly popular Six Feet Under, agrees to let a British Television crew follow him for a series about Brits working in Hollywood, he finds that his true calling may be in the glitz and glamour of Las Vegas' Stage and not in the harsh world of Hollywood show business. (Squeak Pictures)
Also On The Web: Internet Movie Database View The Trailer Official Studio Site
What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas
The result is a deliberate conflation of fact and fiction that yields unexpected emotional impact.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Ken Fox
Taylor, while perhaps a little small to become a real Vegas showboy, makes for a very charismatic hero, while Joaquin Baca-Asay's cinematography captures all the glitz and slightly tawdry glamour of the Vegas strip.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Chuck Wilson
The film takes on unexpected weight when Christian cops to his intense personal loneliness. That's not the stuff of high comedy, but it's brave and, in these days of rah-rah, everyone's-in-love gay media, rather refreshing.
Read Full Review >Variety Scott Foundas
It's a rich idea for a comedy, even if the filmmakers seem timid about making the pic the full-on satire it might have been.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Stephen Holden
The lesson of Showboy is how disturbingly easy it is for an audience to trust what it sees when confronted with a film posing as factual documentary.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Frank Scheck
Unlike such similar efforts as "A Mighty Wind," this would-be satire isn't funny enough to be entertaining, nor is it clever enough to fool us.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Akiva Gottlieb
So amateurish that its awkward Whoopi Goldberg cameo actually adds a touch of class, Showboy is an ill-conceived, often implausible hybrid of fact and fiction.
Read Full Review >New York Post Lou Lumenick
Lethargically paced, badly edited and shot in hideous digital video.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 7.6 (out of 10) based on 5 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Zoe S. gave it a 9:
Very clever, very funny, very poignant. A bit of Woody Allen, a bit of Charlie Chaplin, a slice of the Office. I was fooled most of the time, I loved the character, I felt for him in his failures, in his trying to succeed, in his determination when faced with impossible odds. I laughed out loud a lot.
Glenn gave it a 10:
Wonderful film!! Very funny, and with so much heart!!
Jake M. gave it a 10:
I loved this film. The audience I was with loved it. They were laughing the whole time. It seems to me, all the reviewers were fooled by the film, and they feel like iditos, so they are giving bad reviews. Quite simply, this is a hell of a ride, and did I say funny!
Johnny gave it a 9:
Witty, much more fun than a fake documentary ought to be. The subtle humor takes a little while to sink in, but ultimately the film is very enjoyable.
