2005 · drama · coming-of-age
Dare
Directed by Adam Salky16m2005
Smart and lonely high school senior Ben secretly lusts after bad boy classmate Johnny. After play practice one night for the senior production of “A Streetcar Named Desire,” “light-boy” Ben gives Johnny, the play’s Stanley, a ride home to help him with his lines.
Our read: Dare (2005) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded drama · coming-of-age entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, measured, gentle drama / coming-of-age, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- sombre
- measured
- intimate
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