In the school-set re-working of Cyrano, an awkward but imaginative pupil helps the handsome but spectacularly dim school-hero pursue the fiery daughter of a visiting French teacher.
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Alex Lawther
Amberson
Jonah Hauer-King
Winchester
Pauline Étienne
Agnes
Denis Ménochet
Babinot
Joshua McGuire
Huggins
Nicholas Rowe
Headmaster
Nicholas Agnew
Jonty
Giles Malcolm
Audley
David Gordon-Dixon
Scheppy
Archie Merry
Hood
Director
Toby MacDonald
Status
Released
Original Language
EN
Production
WestEnd Films, Film4 Productions, Momac Films Ltd., BFI
Peter McGinn
August 29, 2020
Old Boys was mostly entertaining for me. The humor in the realistic dialogue, and the charm of the "moving" pictures the lead character supposedly drew were a fun element of the otherwise cliched script. I swear if another movie about a British residential school for boys includes a scene of the dork kid being lowered upside down into a toilet or trash can, I will stop watching it. It is so common...
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