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Showboy
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7.6

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MPAA 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)

GENRE(S):	Comedy
WRITTEN BY:	Christian Taylor Lindy Heymann Jason Buchtel
DIRECTED BY:	Lindy Heymann Christian Taylor
RELEASE DATE:	DVD: August 17, 2004 Video: August 17, 2004 Theatrical: April 9, 2004
RUNNING TIME:	93 minutes, Color
ORIGIN:	USA

Best Film, 2002 Milan International Film Festival; Douglas Hickox Award, 2002 British Independent Film Awards

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Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas

The result is a deliberate conflation of fact and fiction that yields unexpected emotional impact.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

New York Post Lou Lumenick

Lethargically paced, badly edited and shot in hideous digital video.

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.

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