House of Boys

"Make Love Your Goal"

Jul 29 2011 Unrated 1h 57m
Drama, Music, Romance

It is 1984. Frank is a determined English teenager who runs away from high school to find an alternative gay lifestyle in Amsterdam. He finds a home and a job at the "House of Boys", a bar-cum-brothel run by a strict Madame who has an eye for what his punters crave. Frank works his way up from barman to on-stage dancer and falls in love with some of his housemates, Jake. The first intimations of what is described as 'the gay cancer', casts a long shadow over Frank's tight-knit group of friends. Yet despite the troubles that cloud the hopes and dreams of young Frank, his perseverance, along with support from a willing doctor, will carry him through.

Plot

A glamorous, colourful coming-of-age story that follows the dramatic journey of Frank, a high school kid in 1984, through an exciting world of sex and music, where his deep new passion is suddenly turned into a struggle for courage facing a new disease - the "gay cancer" - and becomes deep, true love in the expectancy of his friend's horrible death and beyond.

Written by

Jean-Claude Schlim, Christian Thiry, Robert David Graham

Directed by

Jean-Claude Schlim

Cast

Loïc Peckels, Layke Anderson, Harry Ferrier

Crew

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Production Countries

Germany, Luxembourg

Production Companies

Elsani Film, Delux Productions

Languages

Français, , Deutsch, English

Awards

2 wins & 1 nomination

Scores
# of Votes
1,433
Average Rating
6.5 out of 10
Metascore
40
Popularity
NA