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A DREAMLIKE TALE OF A GAY HTLER

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23, 2010“I like adventure, ” says the boyish gay htler (Ben Bonenfant) at the heart of “Strapped, ” Joseph Graham’s dreamlike but feature. Especially notable are Pl Gerrr, as an agg civil-rights warrr, and Nick Frangne, as a lonely trick more terted nnectn than ReleasgMoodily lighted and photographed by Matthew Boyd (whose work beli the productn’s ultra-low budget), “Strapped” grafts faiar gay stereotyp onto an unfaiar template.

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