When Boys Fly

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Summary: Joy and dark side of circuit parties
Review: "When Boys Fly" gives you the real, inside look at circuit parties through the eyes of several attendees. It captures the joy and release many feel at the parties while not shying away from those who take things too far. Perhaps too much emphasis was placed on the latter and it ends on a melancholy note but overall it was still excellent. The best look at circuit culture I've seen on film.

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Summary: Joy and dark side of circuit parties
Review: "When Boys Fly" gives you the real, inside look at circuit parties through the eyes of several attendees. It captures the joy and release many feel at the parties while not shying away from those who take things too far. Perhaps too much emphasis was placed on the latter and it ends on a melancholy note but overall it was still excellent. The best look at circuit culture I've seen on film.

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Summary: A must see
Review: A very powerful film of a peak into the Circuit Party World. I am a straight woman who did not even know what a circuit party was before seeing the film, so it did not really pertain to my life directly at all and I still found it extremely interesting. It at once exhilarating and heart renching.

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Summary: A Must See!
Review: An incredible documentary that takes a hard look at the gay circuit party scene. Funny and sobering, witty and truthful, edgy and insightful. Simply fantsastic.

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Summary: It's about time!
Review: Finally someone has made a documentary which captures both the positive and negatives sides of this bizarre world. If you know nothing about this Alterna-Universe, you should see this film because you won't believe your eyes! If you know about Circuit Parties, have been to a Circuit Party or have a friend who has been to Circuit Party -- get ready to be lost in a reflection of yourself and the people you care about. It will spin you around for one hell of a time.

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Summary: Watch this one...and walk through the looking glass
Review: I found the documentary "When Boys Fly" to be a surprisingly engaging and fascinating, candid, shocking and sometimes sad peek through the looking glass to see what really goes on at "gay raves," aka circuit parties. Filmmakers Rolov and Halpern did a great job in showing us the world in which this segment of so-called "A-listers" live and party, and how some newcomers and White party veterans are drawn into the circle of rave party life and its immediate results...good and bad. The quick editing makes for a fast-paced viewing and humor is where you might not always expect to find it in this honest and non-judgemental portrayal of this subculture within a subculture that I believe can be enjoyed by gay and straight, young-to-middle-aged audiences alike.

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Summary: When Boys Fly
Review: I really enjoyed this film. Never having attended one of these parties, I enjoyed the look into this fast-paced lifestyle that this film provided. I feel that this film was an honest and real depiction of what can and does occur at these parties. "Boys" depicted the hardcore drug/party life and those who attend these parties to just let loose and have fun. It was a fair and honest depiction of the party scene.

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Summary: When Boys Fly
Review: I really enjoyed this film. Never having attended one of these parties, I enjoyed the look into this fast-paced lifestyle that this film provided. I feel that this film was an honest and real depiction of what can and does occur at these parties. "Boys" depicted the hardcore drug/party life and those who attend these parties to just let loose and have fun. It was a fair and honest depiction of the party scene.

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Summary: this is no network-TV reality series
Review: I saw this movie at a film festival and I must say the story it documents is spellbinding, eye-opening, encapsulating, funny, and sad all at the same time.

By no means does this documentary insinuate that all gay men are lured into the hard-partying yet sometimes dark world of "circuit parties"; on the contrary, it chronicles the exploits of a neophyte to the circuit party scene who really feels that he doesn't have anything in common with these other guys, questions why he is there, yet is intrigued nonetheless.

With the benefit of the omnipresent camera, we watch in true reality TV form as this person discovers the circuit party cultural phenomenon for the first time. He parties like he never has before, meets some interesting characters, experiences individual growth, discovers a sense of belonging, yet never loses his individuality, sense of grounding, and self control.

This story is familiar to some of us that have been to a few circuit parties, had fun, but by no means would be considered "circuit boys".

I would recommend this to anyone who has been to a circuit party, never been to but would like to attend a circuit party, knows someone that goes to circuit parties, or is just plain interested in the cultural phenomenon in a segment of the gay world of the drugs, the boys, and the partying.

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Summary: Fascinating!
Review: I was fortunate enough to see this film at Outfest in Los Angeles and I loved it! It is a fascinating and riveting look inside the depths of the gay circuit party scene. A must see!