Pool boys
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Pool boys |
| Original title | The Pool Boys |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2011 |
| length | 107 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | JB Rogers |
| script |
Julie O'Hora , Justin Ware |
| production |
Jerry Daigle , Steve Markoff , Bruce McNall , Warren Zide |
| music | Peter Rafelson |
| camera | Tom Priestley Jr. |
| cut | Dennis M. Hill |
| occupation | |
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Pool Boys is an American comedy from 2011 starring Rachelle Lefèvre , Brett Davern , Matthew Lillard and Janine Habeck .
action
The prospective Harvard student Alex needs a scholarship , but he has to have an internship . His cousin Roger, who is already studying, works as a pool cleaner for the rich in Beverly Hills to earn money while studying. For Alex, he gets in touch with his cousin Roger and asks if he could put him there too. Alex then wants to have the job recognized as an internship. Since both suffer from a constant lack of money, they are forced to secretly spend the night in a customer's garden. To get back to money, they come up with a new business model. You want to raise a professional escort company together with the escort lady Laura. After a period of rapid growth, however, further disasters occur.
background
The film was shot in 2007 in the New Orleans area. It was only shown in a few cinemas. It was released on Blu-Ray in the US at the end of 2011. It was published direct-to-video in Germany in 2014 .
reception
Mike Scott of nola.com criticizes the fact that the comedy only serves the "cheap laughs". For Filmfutter, the film is “a complete disappointment” and received only 1.5 stars out of 5. The “gags” are “dull”, the story “uninteresting” and the actors “could hardly develop their potential at any point”.
Web links
- Pool Boys in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Pool Boys in the online movie database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mike Scott: NO stands in for Beverly Hills in new film . In: Nola.com . NOLA Media Group. May 22, 2007. Retrieved September 6, 2013.
- ↑ a b Mike Scott: Long-delayed New Orleans-shot comedy 'Pool Boys' settles for cheap laughs . In: The Times-Picayune . NOLA Media Group. December 26, 2011. Retrieved September 6, 2013.
- ↑ Josh Katz: The Pool Boys Blu-ray . Blu-ray.com. December 7, 2011. Retrieved September 6, 2013.
- ↑ a b Pool Boys on filmfutter.de