Showboy

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2002 American film

Showboy

Directed by| Lindy Heymann
Christian Taylor
Produced by| Jason Buchtel
Starring| Christian Taylor
Lindy Heymann
Joe Daly
Erich Miller
Jason Buchtel
Distributed by| Regent Releasing

Release date

* June 22, 2002 (2002-06-22)

Running time

| 93 minutes
Countries| United States
United Kingdom
Language| English
Budget| $300,000

Showboy is a 2002 mockumentary film that was produced by Jason Buchtel, directed by Christian Taylor and Lindy Heymann, and written by and starring the three. It has cameos by Whoopi Goldberg, Siegfried & Roy, Alan Ball and the cast of the television series Six Feet Under.

## Plot

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The film, a mockumentary that viewers are meant to believe is real, features around real-life screenwriter Taylor. Taylor is solicited by director Heymann to be the subject in a British television documentary series about British writers working in Hollywood. On the first day of filming this documentary, Taylor is fired from his real-life job as a screenwriter on the dramatic television series Six Feet Under. He is unaware that the documentary crew knows this has occurred.

He then relocates to Las Vegas to pursue a dream of becoming a professional showboy (a chorus line dancer). He lies to the documentary crew, purporting to be doing research for a film project. It slowly becomes evident that he is desperate to find a new career, and at the same time he slowly begins to come out of the closet and pursue romance.

## Credits

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(Note: cast is playing fictional versions of themselves)

* Christian Taylor as himself
* Lindy Heymann as herself
* Marilyn Milgrom as a producer in London
* Joe Daly as himself
* Erich Miller as himself
* Jason Buchtel as himself
* Aaron Porter as a dance instructor
* Adrian Armas as himself
* Billy Sameth as Billy

## Reception

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Showboy won the The Douglas Hickox Award for Best Directorial Debut at the British Independent Film Awards and Best Film at the Milan Film Festival.[1]

## References

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1. ^ Heymann, Lindy; Taylor, Christian (2002-06-22), Showboy (Comedy, Drama), here! Films, Squeak Pictures, Fite Films, retrieved 2022-12-13

## External links

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* Showboy at IMDb

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