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Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786305381198 Format: Black & White, NTSC ISBN: 6305381194 Label: Kino Video Manufacturer: Kino Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Kino Video Release Date: June 27, 2000 Running Time: 108 minutes Studio: Kino Video Theatrical Release Date: 1963 Sales Rank: 29068 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Amazon.com: Though Sidney J. Furie's Leather Boys was controversial in its day, its boldness has dissipated with time. Set in the world of the leather-jacket-clad motorcycle clubs of British youth, this product of the British social-realist "kitchen sink" movement is at its best capturing the details of working-class life: the holiday camps, the claustrophobic studio homes, the pubs and cafés that dot neighborhood streets. Schoolgirl Dot (the engaging Rita Tushingham) and mechanic Reg (Colin Campbell) marry too early and quickly discover adulthood is not nearly as much fun as they expected. She's a social gadfly and he's a stick-in-the-mud homebody and they bring out the worst in each other. Mere months after exchanging vows he moves out to care for his widowed grandma, inviting his new mate Pete (Dudley Sutton) to bunk with him, but Pete's interest in Reg, as we learn, is more than just friendly. Tushingham is marvelous as Dot, an immature young woman alternately selfish, sincere, and desperate, and Campbell makes the soft-spoken Reg as blind to her needs as she is to his, but Furie barely hints at what brings them together in the first place--the moment the vows are spoken they seem to be at loggerheads, disagreements turning to vicious bickering. The film's reputation largely rests on its oblique exploration of the gay underground, provocative in its time, but today it's a lesser companion to such classics as The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner and This Sporting Life. --Sean Axmaker Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Definitely NOT homosexualThis British New Wave film is in the social comment style of A Taste of Honey and A Kind of Loving and it is one of the best of these films. The relationship between the two mates in the story has been misunderstood since gay liberation and so therefore has the film. The film is about the disillusionment of youth in the modern world. The story has two young mates enjoying the freedom of the roads on their motorbikes while facing having to grow up in the modern adult world. One of them gets married ... Read More Rating:  - Good drama, not really datedIf you've read other reviews you know about the plot. I think the movie is quite good. Some people call the movie dated, but I think it's a consequence of its time-capsuling quality. I mean, the movie looks and sounds so real, it's true that this characters wouldn't exist today, but it's also so human, we can still relate to them, and at the same time we get the feeling of life in another era. The acting is excellent, uncompromised. I hear the leading lady was an iconic pop idol. Well, hers ... Read More Rating: - A Different Look At The LonelyThis film is a really wonderful example of the fact that anyone can feel polarized, alone, and alienated. Reg is a young straight biker mechanic who gets married to a harpy of a woman who is just awful to him. Rita Tushingham plays his young wife as a woman with seemingly no love just a desire to complain and be absolutely nasty to Reg. So along comes Pete, a homosexual motorcylist who befriends Reg. Reg does not realize Pete is a homosexual, and can't quite figure out Pete's motivations some times, ... Read More Rating: - A Different Look At The LonelyThis film is a really wonderful example of the fact that anyone can feel polarized, alone, and alienated. Reg is a young straight biker mechanic who gets married to a harpy of a woman who is just awful to him. Rita Tushingham plays his young wife as a woman with seemingly no love, just a desire to complain and be absolutely nasty to Reg. So along comes Pete, a homosexual motorcylist who befriends Reg. Reg does not realize Pete is a homosexual and can't quite figure out Pete's motivations some times, but ... Read More Rating: - Out of the Past"Leather Boys" is a black-and-white noirish film of the kitchen sink school directed by Canadian Sidney J. Furie and starring '60s pop icon Rita Tushingham. However, it is Colin Campbell, as Tushingham's young husband, who takes center stage in the drama, and his performance is heart-breaking. "Leather Boys" is essentially a drama about consequences. Campbell's character marries Tushingham because that's what a young man from his class and with his prospects does. But he is unhappy in marriage and ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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