Dream Boy (2008)

Directed by

James Bolton

Genre

drama film, romance film, LGBTQ-related film, coming-of-age film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 30m

Rating

6.1 of 10 from 124 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two gay teenagers begin a secret romance in the rural South of the 1970s. They navigate their feelings for each other while facing the dangers and pressures of their conservative surroundings.

slow-burnmelancholictendertenseintimatebittersweetatmospheric

What happens

Dream Boy is a 2008 American southern gothic romantic melodrama film written and directed by James Bolton, and based on Jim Grimsley's 1995 novel of the same name. It follows two gay teenagers falling in love in the rural South in the late 1970s. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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