Product Details

• Actors: Lauren Ambrose, Adrian Armas, Alan Ball, Jason Buchtel, Alan Connell
• Directors: Lindy Heymann
• Format: AC-3, Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Wolfe Video
• DVD Release Date: August 17, 2004
• Run Time: 93 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0002B15OM
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #174,105 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Showboy" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

When Christian Taylor a writer on HBO s wildly popular Six Feet Under agrees to let a British Television crew film him for a documentary he doesn't realize that they will hear it when Executive Producer Alan Ball unexpectedly fires him.Rather than admit he s been canned Christian tells the crew he s got a new project and has them follow him as he begins an unusual quest to fulfill a life long dream to bee a Vegas Showboy. As the bewildered crew follows him from strip-mall studios to the stages of top shows they meet a cast of wild and wonderful characters who are the true life and soul of Las Vegas Other Information: Running Time 93 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3.0 out of 5 stars Great Expectations, October 26, 2010

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Michael Kerjman - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Showboy (DVD)

An American dream release in a same-gender-attracted dancer's case: one works hard to make it in a show-business with no protectors-or they were left outside a curtain?

Some laugh through tears, some monologues on boy-seek-boy issues, some nice music-and a bit dancing, of course.

It is better than many other movies on analogue topics.

5.0 out of 5 stars Showboy (2002), July 5, 2010

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Elisa (Italy) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Showboy (DVD)

I saw this factional movie since Adrian Armas will be in the sequel to A Four Letter Word, Violet Tendencies, that Jesse Archer and Casper Andreas are producing just now ([...]). He will be the "love interest" of Jesse Archer's character. So, truth be told, I was not expecting for it to be so nice, it was more a research work I was doing.

And instead, Showboy is a very nice movie. At the beginning, Christian Taylor was so good, that I was almost believing that it was his real story I was looking at. He is a mix of innocence and reality, has a way to pass you his feelings without word.

Adrian Armas' character is again, the dream date, he has two/three scenes, but everytime he is on the screen, he shines. He has not actually a nice character, he is selfish and uncaring, he doesn't realize Christian's feelings, but well, this is what most "dream date" are, unreachable, isn't it?

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5.0 out of 5 stars The Documentary as an Entertainment Form!, August 24, 2004

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Grady Harp (Los Angeles, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Showboy (DVD)

SHOWBOY is a fascinating little film that challenges you to decide the polarity between fact and fiction. Though seemingly a Documentary (listed on the cover of the DVD as a Mockumentary) this is a work written by Screenwriter Christian Taylor and Lindy Heymann about the transition of a young man from a writer to a chorus line showboy in Las Vegas. 'Apparently' Christian was a writer for the popular HBO series SIX FEET UNDER, but was fired and retreated to Las Vegas to lick his wounds and apparently do research for a new screenplay on Vegas performers. Lindy Hermann is a documentarian who has been shooting a film about Taylor's involvement with Six Feet Under, discovers he has been fired, and follows him to Las Vegas where she continues to shoot the life of Taylor. Taylor becomes enamored with Las Vegas, wants to get the feel of 'tryouts' and the life and training of the showboys, only to discover that in his attempt to escape his disappointment with his loss of employment, he has found a new obsession with trying to be a dancer! His preparations and auditions are caught on film and one in particular, with a very fine and smoldering dancer Adrian Armas, shows Christian Taylor's 'passions' as a gay man encountering the dream of show biz with all the accoutrements! During the course of the film we meet a roommate (Erich Miller, an actual showboy now retired), Whoopi Goldberg, and Siegfried and Roy - all representing aspects of Las Vegas showtime. While it is difficult to find the line where we are being voyeurs or being duped, this film is never less than entertaining. And as with the best of documentaries (if indeed that is what it is) we are willingly swept along with the process. Highly recommended.