Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

The boys in the band [videorecording] / a Leo Productions, Ltd. production, a National General Pictures release, a Cinema Center Films presentation ; written and produced by Mart Crowley ; directed by Wiliam Friedkin.

Publisher, Date:

Hollywood, Calif. : Paramount Home Entertainment, [2008]

Description:

1 videodisc (ca. 119 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

A witty, perceptive and devastating look at the personal agendas and suppressed revelations swirling among a group of gay men in Manhattan. Harold is celebrating a birthday, and his friend Michael has drafted some friends to help commemorate the event. As the evening progresses, the alcohol flows, the knives come out, and Michael's demand that the group participate in a devious telephone game unleashes dormant and unspoken emotions.

Target Audience Note:

MPAA rating: R ; Canadian Home Video Rating: 18A: Mature theme, language may offend.

Subjects:

Gay men -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama.

Male homosexuality -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama.

Birthday parties -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama.

Male friendship -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama.

Prank telephone calls -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama.

Homosexuality -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama.

Genre:

Fiction films.

Feature films.

Film adaptations.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Author:

Crowley, Mart, 1935-2020

Friedkin, William.

Frey, Leonard, 1938-1988.

Nelson, Kenneth, 1930-1993

Crowley, Mart, 1935-2020 Boys in the band.

Leo Productions.

National General Pictures.

Cinema Center Films.

Paramount Home Entertainment (Firm)

CBS DVD (Firm)

Other Title:

Title on container: Mart Crowley's the Boys in the band

Notes:

Based on the off-Broadway play of the same name, by Mart Crowley.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1970.

Special features include: "Act one: the play" featurette; "Act two: the film" featurette; "Act three: 40 years of Boys in the band" featurette; feature-length audio commentary by William Friedkin.

Director of photography, Arthur J. Ornitz ; editors, Carl Lerner, Gerald Greenberg.

Leonard Frey, Kenneth Nelson, Frederick Combs, Cliff Gorman, Laurence Luckinbill, Keith Prentice, Peter White.

DVD, NTSC, region 1, widescreen (aspect ratio: 16:9), Dolby Digital stereo.

Closed captioned.

ISBN:

1415709432

9781415709436

0097368878549

5557366695

Publisher Number:

88785

Other Number: