Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic A distressingly large number of first-time American indie films focus on coming-of-age stories.
In cases where the director is gay, there’s a good chance said that first feature will be a coming-of-age/coming-out story. What else should we expect?
The directors haven’t been on earth all that long, and they write what they know, or else, what they’ve seen in other movies.
That said, “Big Boys” surprised me. Corey Sherman’s deliciously uncomfortable debut features a lot of the usual ingredients: a misfit teenage protagonist, a transformative couple days (in this case, a “cousins’ camping trip” to Lake Arrowhead), a series of embarrassing but life-altering experiences.
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