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Handsome Devil

Follow the crowd, or follow your heart?

7.0 / 10

95 minutes

2017-02-15

English

IE

Actors :

Fionn O'Shea, Nicholas Galitzine, Andrew Scott, Ardal O'Hanlon, Amy Huberman, Ruairí O'Connor, Michael McElhatton, Moe Dunford, Mark Doherty, Hugh O'Conor, Norma Sheahan, Stephen Hogan, Lauterio Zamparelli, Eoin Griffin, Patrick McDonnell

Description

A music-mad 16-year-old outcast at a rugby-mad boarding school forms an unlikely friendship with his dashing new roommate.

Reviews

Reno

Reno

5/16/2024, 3:18:38 PM

**Music, sport and then there's gay.** I have seen many gay films, but I never felt very satisfied as this one. It removed all the cliches. You don't get a product like that often. I mean, despite being a gay film, there's no romance in it. But everything was told from a different aspect, like whether it is in the eye of sport, music, et cetera. Maybe if one film that families should watch rega...

CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

3/27/2022, 6:38:52 PM

Quite an illustrative tale of conforming, this film. It is gay themed, but could equally apply to anyone new to an environment and who struggles to fit in. Here, two classmates who share a room form an unlikely bond; one a star sportsman and the other a bit of a pariah. It has two redeeming features of note - the use of sport as a positive conduit, albeit via a pretty circuitous route; and by allo...