bwoy

Broadway actor Anthony Rapp plays the lead character in writer-director John G. Young's low-budget, fitfully interesting bwoy, a story of repressed guilt and desire rolling over into obsession. Rapp is Brad, an unemployed physician who is biding his time as a bill collector for a credit card company. He's also a grieving father whose young son died in a backyard accident, and he is estranged from his exceptionally patient wife (De'Adre Aziza), surfing the web and looking for ways to make anonymous sexual connections with men. Eventually, Brad finds what he's looking for in Yenny (Jimmy Brooks), a young man living in Jamaica who is 20 years Brad's junior. The two establish a flirtatious rapport, with Yenny taking on the persona of a bad-boy son looking for a paternal lover. Brad becomes increasingly fixated on communicating with Yenny all hours of the day via text messaging and Skype. And, not surprisingly, this makes Brad an ideal mark for a scam that viewers will see coming from a mile away. Optional. (T. Keogh)