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Boys State

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Original title: Boys State
Year: 2020
Running time: 109 min.
Country: United States
Director: Amanda McBaine, Jesse Moss
Music: T. Griffin
Cinematography: Thorsten Thielow
Cast: Documentary
Producer: Concordia Studio. Broadcast by: Apple TV+
Genre: Documentary | Politics
Synopsis: In an unusual experiment, a thousand 17-year-old boys from Texas join together to build a representative government from the ground up.

Awards: 2020: Sundance Film Festival: Grand Jury Prize - Documentary

2020: National Board of Review (NBR): Top Documentaries

2020: Directors Guild of America (DGA): Nominated for Best Director / Documentary

Critics' reviews

"Smart, entertaining, darkly comic and profoundly unsettling, 'Boys State' is simply brilliant, the best film of Sundance, and already in contention to be one of the best films of the year. "

Jason Gorber: SlashFilm
"An alternately encouraging and terrifying look at tomorrow’s politicians (...) [It] represents a revolution in vérité filmmaking"

Peter Debruge: Variety
"'Boys State' goes a little too soft on its subjects, attempting a balanced perspective at a moment that demands more partisan insight. Nevertheless it manages to capture the systematic forces behind American leadership"

Eric Kohn: IndieWire
"Through its four endearing lead figures, 'Boys State' manages to be a hilarious and infuriating look at American politics."

Matt Goldberg: Collider
"What’s striking beyond the relevant subject matter is how McBaine and Moss film the raucous events — rallies, conventions, elections, a talent show — so cinematically"

Johnny Oleksinski: New York Post
"'Boys State' inevitably feels more and more like reality-tv programming, which is both appropriate for our times and depressing"

John DeFore: The Hollywood Reporter
"'Boys State' constantly and vividly shows the blurred lines of decorum that come with age and power"

Nick Allen: rogerebert.com
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