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The Boys (1998)

The Boys poster
Directed by
Rowan Woods
Genre
drama film, crime film
Country
Australia
Runtime
1h 26m
Rated
18
Rating
6.5 of 10 from 29 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A group of brothers in a working class Australian suburb get together for a weekend. Their destructive behavior escalates and leads to violence.

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What happens

The Boys is a 1998 Australian drama film directed by Rowan Woods. The screenplay by Stephen Sewell is based on the play by Gordon Graham, with Graham influenced by the 1986 murder of Anita Cobby, with the play first performed by Griffin Theatre Company under the direction of Alex Galeazzi. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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