Showboy

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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
Release date
  • June 22, 2002 (2002-06-22)
Running time
93 minutes
CountriesUnited States
United Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Budget$300,000

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 .

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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)

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

  1. Heymann, Lindy; Taylor, Christian (2002-06-22), Showboy (Comedy, Drama), here! Films, Squeak Pictures, Fite Films, retrieved 2022-12-13