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Actors: Charlie Sheen, Maxwell Caulfield, Patti D'Arbanville, Hank Garrett, Christopher McDonald
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about The Boys Next Door |
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THE BOYS NEXT DOOR is a movie directed by Penelope Spheeris in 1986.
Maxwell -Roy- Caulfield and Charlie -Bo- Sheen have just graduated from their little town's high school. Roy is due to begin work the following monday at a local factory but Charlie doesn't know what to do with his life. Both decide to drive to L.A. and spend a wild last week-end of liberty. As they arrive to the city of angels, Roy badly injures a gas employee under the pretext that the man has tried to swindle them with the change. Then Roy tells Bo that he feels "some stuff in his head" that drives him aggressive and violent. A few hours later, they find themselves, without having planned it, in a L.A. gay bar and finally accept the invitation of one of the clients. Roy kills the guy in cold blood as he tries to seduce them in his apartment and robs a gun hidden there. Meanwhile, the L.A. police waits for them to make a mistake. But the night is still young for Roy and Bo.
Serial killer movie or failed social study? Interesting but not an indispensable movie.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of The Boys Next Door |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 50%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 10%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 40%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1980's-1999
Crime & Police Story?
Yes
Crime story:
- catching/stopping killer
If this is a criminal POV story...
- criminals killing each other
- bad criminals on the run
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- student
Age:
- a teen
Eccentric:
Yes
- mentally ill
Hair color?
- blonde
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
Body type
- muscular (man)
Unclothed?
- Chest
Events of movie makes character more...
- cynical
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- (man) short/standard wavy
Body type
- muscular (man)
How much in movie?
- 90%-100%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- general circumstances
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- California
City?
Yes
City:
- Los Angeles
Small town?
Yes
Small town people:
- dumb rednecks, like Gomer Pyle
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- gory visuals of deaths
Movie makes you feel...
- all mixed up
How many deaths in film?
- 4-8
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- actual description of sex
Kind of violence:
- hand to hand
- guns
Unusual forms of death
- perforation--bullets
Any profanity?
- A lot of foul language
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Modern rock/pop
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