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Boystown | 
| Director: Juan Flahn
Actors: Carlos Fuentes, Pepan Nieto, Pablo Puyol, Concha Velasco, Rosa Maria Sarda
Studio: TLA
Category: DVD
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Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 16497
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dvd-video, Ntsc, Widescreen
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Unrated
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 100 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 202
UPC: 807839003703
EAN: 0807839003703
ASIN: B001ATWK30
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
Release Date: October 28, 2008
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Product Description
In BOYSTOWN (Chuecatown), Victor (Pablo Puyol of 20 Centimeters) is a real estate agent in the quickly gentrifying neighborhood of Chueca in Madrid. But he hides a terrible secret; his apartments become available for sale when he murders the elderly women owners and disguises them as suicides. Then Victor quickly refurbishes the apartments to upwardly-mobile gay couples because his ultimate goal is to transform the neighborhood into a hip gayborhood like the Castro in San Francisco and Chelsea in New York.
The latest victim s apartment is next door to gay couple Ray (Carlos Fuentes of Kilometer Zero) and Leo (Pepon Nieto of Bulgarian Lovers) who eventually inherit the apartment and offer it as a gift to Ray s mother Antonia (Concha Velasco of Kilometer Zero). But Victor only wants high income gays to move in and he begins a plot to remove Antonia from the premises. Toss in the eccentric Inspector Mila (Rosa Maria Sarda of All About My Mother) and her charmingly clueless son Luis, assigned to investigate the murders, and soon the neighborhood of Chueca is brimming with comic mishaps, sexy seductions and more murders!
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Unique comedy with a twisted edge. November 3, 2008
Bob Lind (Phoenix, AZ United States)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
"Boystown" (Chuecatown) (2007) is a gentrified area of Madrid, in which long-occupied flats are being purchased and upgraded for resale to upwardly-mobile gays. Victor is the realtor making the rather generous offers, to the mostly older widows living in the area, but doesn't take "No" for an answer. If necessary, he'll murder the elderly owners in order to make sure the flat will be available.
When it is revealed that bearish gay couple Rey and Leo inherited the home of one of Victor's victims, Victor tries to cajole them into selling the flat, but they are renovating it for Rey's feisty mother. The old lady doesn't like the flat, and instead intrudes on the lives of the couple, driving a wedge between them. Victor takes advantage of their arguments to befriend Leo, hoping to get access to the flat that way. Meanwhile, it's up to a matronly police investigator and her sexually confused son/patrol partner to try to solve the case.
Kind of a simple story, but done in an endearing, witty and entertaining manner, making it a good viewing choice. Spanish with English subtitles (somewhat difficult to follow, since the characters talk fast). No DVD extras, other than chapter stops. Would be rated R for sexual content and some rear nudity. I give it four stars out of five.
Best Gay Film I've Seen October 28, 2008
DaveO (San Diego, CA USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I find a lot of films that are focused on the gay genre to be very trite and unrewarding for the viewer. This was the exception.
Saw it at a film fest last year and have been waiting for the DVD to share it with my friends. It's definitely a dark comedy with several laugh out loud moments (and I rarely laugh out loud). They acting is great and the characters are easy to attach to.
Overall a very well done film. Were it not for the subtitles I'd give it 5 stars....I mean, who likes to read when you can stare at the guys.
Bears vs. bad guys October 12, 2008
Thomas A. Heald (Rapid City, SD USA)
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
Sinfully handsome Victor (Pablo Puyol, 20 Centimeters) is a real estate agent working in Chuecatown, Madrid's quickly gentrifying neighborhood (think Northern Liberties). But he hides a terrible secret: he has been murdering elderly women, disguising them as suicides and then quickly flipping their apartments to upwardly-mobile gay couples. When bearish couple Ray (Carlos Fuentes, Kilometer Zero) and Leo (Pepon Nieto, Bulgarian Lovers) inherit the latest victims apartment, they offer it up to Rays mother, Antonia (the saucy Concha Velasco, Kilometer Zero), but Victors master plan is to create the ultimate gayborhood, and the older woman doesnt fit the demographic. Meanwhile an eccentric detective (Rosa Maria Sarda, All About My Mother) and her sexually-confused son, Luis, begin to undercover the scheme. In this fast-paced comedy, Chuecatown is brimming with zippy one-liners, a smorgasbord of male eye-candy and comic mishaps in the great recent tradition of Spanish cinema. (Spanish with English subtitles)
Life ain't easy in "BOYSTOWN" (Chuecatown) (TLA Video) for poor Leo (Pepon Nieto)! His driving school students leave him exhausted; his comic book geek hus-bear Ray (Carlos Fuentes, "Kilometer Zero") seems more interested in an old flame, his mother in-law Antonia (Concha Velasco, also "Kilometer Zero") hates him; he's being framed for the murder of their landlady; and the sex scheming real estate agent Victor (Pablo Puyol, "20 Centimeters") who's seemingly making a play for him (but really Ray's inherited apartment building) just made Leo get his back waxed.
It's a crime that Leo can't catch a break in the manic Spanish farce. But the hunky lovechild of Russel Crowe and Mark Addy is a delight to watch as a modern-day Jackie Gleason. "La Cage Aux Folles," "American Psycho" and the work of Pedro Almodovar blend nicely in a saucy black comedy that argues for old fashioned Cary Grant values over those of "Sex and the City's" Carrie Bradshaw. -- Thomas Allen Heald, [...]
Diversity and Acceptance October 6, 2008
Amos Lassen (Little Rock, Arkansas)
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
"Boystown"
Diversity and Acceptance
Amos Lassen
Soon to be released by TLA Releasing is the Spanish comedy "Boystown" ("Chuecatown") which shows a great deal of the diversity and acceptance by the people of Spain.
Victor (Pablo Puyol) is a real estate agent in the neighborhood of Chuecha which is in the process of gentrification. He, however, harbors a secret--his apartments only go on the sales market only after he murders the elderly women that live in them and then disguises the deed as suicide. After the deaths, Victor refurbishes the apartments and sells them to gay couples. We learn that Victor's idea was to transform the area to a "gayborhood".
Victor chooses his next victim as the one who lives next door to a gay couple, Ray (Carlos Fuentes) and Leo (Pepon Nieto) who are due to inherit the apartment and then want to give it to Ray's mother, Antonia. Victor, however, only wants gays of high incomes to move in and he begins to plot a way to get Antonia out of the apartment. Enter the inspector Mila and her witless son, Luis who are assigned to investigate the murders and all comedy breaks loose. There are more murders and lots of sex and much, much comedy.
I recently read a review by a Spaniard who saw the film when it was released in Madrid and he disagreed with almost everything I have written here and, hey, that's what makes the world go around--different strokes for different folks. Of course, living in Spain he had a completely different perspective on what the film shows. I have to agree that many of the jokes are those that only members of the gay community can understand and some of them are quite dated. Some of the other jokes were obviously local to the Spanish population only as they referred to the political system about which, I suspect, many Americans are not familiar.
I enjoyed the movie but it is not great cinema. It is nothing more than fun and that is fine with me.
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