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Boy Culture, a feature film co-written and directed by local Seattle boy, Q. Allan Brocka, opens Friday, April 27 at the Varsity Theater, 4329 University Way NE [get directions]. Hurry. It's scheduled for only a one-week run. It shows at 7:15, and 9:30pm each evening with an additional 5pm screening on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. On Saturday and Sunday only, you could also catch a matinee at 3pm.

The movie is based on critically-acclaimed novel by Matthew Rettenmund. It's won 16 national and international awards while screening at film festivals, including the Seattle International Film Festival. It garnered the Grand Jury Prize for Best Screenplay at Outfest.

Here's a plot outline:

BOY CULTURE is told in the form of a candid confession by "X," a wildly successful male escort. After ten years of sex-for-pay, "X" gets romantically entangled with his two hot roommates and a reclusive elderly client, Gregory. But before Gregory will agree to sex, he tells an unsettling love story spanning fifty years and dares "X" to try something he hasn't felt in years: emotion.

The deeper story is really about emotional risk -- that it can be more of a risk not to take one than to take it. I believe this is an important issue in gay modern life.

The film was shot in Seattle. (Really. Seattle. Not Vancouver impersonating Seattle.)

More here in a prior post.

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