Star Boys

Sep 8, 2017

1h 21m

★ 5.8

What are the limits of your love?

Overview

Through the eyes of two 12-year-old boys, the sexual revolution arrives in a conservative and religious small town in Northern Finland.

Genres

Drama

Family

Production Companies

Silva Mysterium

Filmpool Nord

Dragon Films

Star Boys Trailers

Cast

Vesa, Marja's Son

Vili Saarela

Kaarlo, Ulla's son

Olavi Angervo

Tapio, Marja's Husband

Antti Luusuaniemi

Marja, Tapio's Wife

Pihla Viitala

Ulla, Antero's wife

Malla Malmivaara

Olavi, Marja's father

Risto Tuorila

Tyyne, Marja's mother

Eeva-Maija Haukinen

Antero, Ulla's husband

Tomi Enbuska

Henkka

Otto Koiso-Kanttila

Martti

Janne Raudaskoski

Jake

Joni Hiltunen

Make

Rasmus Röyttä

Madeline has become an integral part of a prestigious physical theater troupe. When the workshop's ambitious director pushes the teenager to weave her rich interior world and troubled history with her mother into their collective art, the lines between performance and reality begin to blur. The resulting battle between imagination and appropriation rips out of the rehearsal space and through all three women's lives.

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5.0

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6.3

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7.1

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6.2

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7.1

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5.5

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5.7

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7.6

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6.3

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6.2

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