2009 · comedy · drama
The Pool Boys
Directed by J.B. Rogers1h 24m2009
A pool boy and a gardener turn an empty mansion into a home for women who belong to the world's oldest profession.
Our read: The Pool Boys (2009) reads as a warm, breathless, grounded comedy · drama entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, breathless, gentle comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, cold.
- warm
- brisk
- gentle
- intimate
- funny
Watching The Pool Boys tonight? Spin for your lens.
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How The Pool Boys feels to watch.
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What watching it is actually like.
“You want a raunchy comedy about two guys running an escort service in a mansion.”
Skip it tonight — You want sophisticated humor or to avoid crude sex and drugs.
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