Showboy
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| Directed by | Lindy Heymann Christian Taylor |
| Produced by | Jason Buchtel |
| Starring | Christian Taylor Lindy Heymann Joe Daly Erich Miller Jason Buchtel |
| Distributed by | Regent Releasing |
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Running time | 93 minutes |
| Template:Pluralize from text | United States United Kingdom |
| Template:Pluralize from text | English |
| Budget | $300,000 |
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Showboy is a 2002 mockumentary film that was produced by Jason Buchtel, directed by Christian Taylor and Lindy Heymann, and written by and starring the three. It has cameos by Whoopi Goldberg, Siegfried & Roy, Alan Ball and the cast of the television series Six Feet Under.
Plot
The film, a mockumentary that viewers are meant to believe is real, features around real-life screenwriter Taylor. Taylor is solicited by director Heymann to be the subject in a British television documentary series about British writers working in Hollywood. On the first day of filming this documentary, Taylor is fired from his real-life job as a screenwriter on the dramatic television series Six Feet Under. He is unaware that the documentary crew knows this has occurred.
He then relocates to Las Vegas to pursue a dream of becoming a professional showboy (a chorus line dancer). He lies to the documentary crew, purporting to be doing research for a film project. It slowly becomes evident that he is desperate to find a new career, and at the same time he slowly begins to come out of the closet and pursue romance.
Credits
(Note: cast is playing fictional versions of themselves)
- Christian Taylor as himself
- Lindy Heymann as herself
- Marilyn Milgrom as a producer in London
- Joe Daly as himself
- Erich Miller as himself
- Jason Buchtel as himself
- Aaron Porter as a dance instructor
- Adrian Armas as himself
- Billy Sameth as Billy
Reception
Showboy won The Douglas Hickox Award for Best Directorial Debut at the British Independent Film Awards and Best Film at the Milan Film Festival.[1]
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Heymann, Lindy; Taylor, Christian (June 22, 2002), Showboy (Comedy, Drama), here! Films, Squeak Pictures, Fite Films, retrieved December 13, 2022
