‘Bonus Track’ is a Sweet Gay Teen Romance
metroweekly.comBonus Track.Mop-haired teen misfit George (Joe Anders), entering his final year at St. Sebastian’s Catholic School in small-town West Yorkshire, England, isn’t all that different from his peers.
He’s just utterly himself — that is, introverted, a wee bit eccentric, and totally obsessed with pop and rock music.Generally a loner, George collects and catalogs cassette tapes of his favorite artists’ interviews and performances, which is only slightly weird for a 17-year-old in 2006.
Yet, he’s bullied relentlessly by the boys and girls at St. Sebastian’s. In turn, he dreams of one day showing them all when he’s playing sold-out arenas as a pop superstar.Anders taps into George’s qualities of quiet determination and total guilelessness, that shyness often mistaken for weakness which attracts the cruel attention of jerks.
George’s uniqueness also piques the interest of the new kid in class, Max Marvin (Samuel Small), who just moved from London, and happens to be the son of a pair of uber-famous rock stars.He’s also good-looking and friendly, so everybody at school wants to know him.
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