Boy Culture

"X" (Derek Magyar) is a wildly successful male escort. After 10 years of sex-for-pay, he becomes romantically entangled with his two roommates (Jonathon Trent, Darryl Stephens) and with Gregory (Patrick Bauchau), a reclusive elderly client. Before Gregory will agree to sex, however, he tells an unsettling love story spanning 50 years and dares "X" to try to feel something he hasn't felt in years: genuine emotion. As the sexual roundelays become increasingly complicated, "X" learns that this time, his emotions are running the show. Directed and co-written by Q. Allan Brocka (Eating Out), based on the critically acclaimed novel by Matthew Rettenmund.

• New York Times "The Hustle and Bustle of Love" —Jeannette Catsoulis