Remake of pioneering gay film
Oct 04, 2020
2 minutes
The Washington Post
SCOTT EVERETT WHITE
Netflix
FILM: The Boys in the Band
STARRING: Jim Parsons, Zachary Quinto, Matt Bomer
DIRECTOR: Joe Mantello
REVIEWER: Michael O’Sullivan
RATINGS: ★★★★★
THE 1968 play – both pioneering and polarising for its simultaneously honest and stagy depiction of pre-Stonewall-era male homosexuality – gets a handsome, impeccably acted Netflix film adaptation by director
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