101rentboys

SYNOPSIS - 101 RENT BOYS UNCUT

Two gay filmmakers pay $50 to 101
hustlers and ask them to talk about
their lives and work. The film is
alternately sexy, disturbing and fun.

REVIEW

Sometimes a very simple premise
yields surprisingly complex results. And
that is the case as documentarians
Randy Barbato and Fenton Bailey
(The Eyes of Tammy Faye, Party
Monster) take their camera to Santa
Monica Boulevard and a series of
motel rooms where they pay $50 each
to 101 different male prostitutes not to
have sex but to talk about their lives
and work. What we see is a fascinating
assortment of men (most young, some
well past their hustling prime) who
reveal themselves to us. Some are gay
others gay-for-pay, many are drug
addicts struggling to get by while
others claim that their life of renting
their bodies is a fine way of making a
living. Alternately funny and shocking,
some of the men (not all 101 get
speaking parts) are obviously playing
to the camera while others genuinely
expose their real selves. They talk
about how they got into the business,
their first tricks, their real sexual
orientation, what they will and won’t do
for a buck. A sexy and fascinating film.
You’ll never trick the same way again!
The video and DVD contain over 30
minutes of additional footage
considered too racy for the theaters
and cable.