Boygame 2013
15min | Short, Comedy, Drama | 3 December 2013 (USA)
Storyline:
John and Nicholas are 15 years old and best friends. They are both very interested in girls but feel insecure when it comes to a first sexual encounter with a woman. That’s why they decide that they will get some ‘practice’ on each other…
Two seventeen year old boys visit Lyme Regis for a weekend. Martin is self confident and chases girls, Sam is a dreamer, and finds ecology far more interesting! They stay at a guest house run by a very eccentric old lady. The film follows their serio-comic adventures.
How far would you go to achieve your dreams? That’s the question that Mark Jenkins is constantly asking himself. A young, gay actor fresh out of LAMDA, Mark’s got the looks, the ability, and the charisma to go all the way. His agent can get him the auditions, but the parts are just never quite right. That’s because in Mark’s mind, there’s only one man who can help him: James Francis -an older established writer as well as a renowned gay icon. However, what begins as an ambitious idea soon turns into obsession, with Mark slowly gatecrashing the life of his idol.
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