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Old Boys (2018)

06/22/2018 Comedy 1h 36m
66%
User
Score
6.1/10
75%

Overview

In the school-set re-working of Cyrano, an awkward but imaginative pupil helps the handsome but spectacularly dim school-hero pursue the fiery daughter of a visiting French teacher.

Toby MacDonald

Director

Luke Ponte

Writer

Freddy Syborn

Writer

Top Billed Cast

Alex Lawther

Alex Lawther

Amberson

Jonah Hauer-King

Jonah Hauer-King

Winchester

Pauline Étienne

Pauline Étienne

Agnes

Denis Ménochet

Denis Ménochet

Babinot

Joshua McGuire

Joshua McGuire

Huggins

Nicholas Rowe

Nicholas Rowe

Headmaster

Nicholas Agnew

Nicholas Agnew

Jonty

Giles Malcolm

Giles Malcolm

Audley

David Gordon-Dixon

David Gordon-Dixon

Scheppy

Media

Official Trailer (Australia)

Official Trailer (Australia)

Official UK Trailer

Official UK Trailer

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Reviews

A review by Peter McGinn

Written on August 29, 2020

Old Boys was mostly entertaining for me. The humor in the realistic dialogue, and the charm of the "moving" pictures the lead character supposedly drew were a fun element of the otherwise cliched script. I swear if another movie about a British residential school for boys includes a scene of the dork kid being lowered upside down into a toilet or trash can, I will stop watching it. It is so common in these types of movies that it has become boring. How refreshing it would be to show the "bullies" having brains and doing something completely different, like sarcastically treating new or dorky kids as royalty, bowing to them and praising them, which the kids knowing it was fake and wondering where it might lead.

I had a slight problem with the fact that a few of the characters were French...

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