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Catholic Boys

Review by John Kay

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Dunn (Andrew McCarthy) is transferred to a Catholic boy's school in Brooklyn.

His introduction to the pedantic Brother Thadeus, Headmaster (Donald Sutherland) is an awkward meeting of two decent people separated by age and ritual.

The school is a typical hotbed of adolescent sexuality, fantasies about girls, masturbation, Hell fire damnation and redemption through confession.

Catholic Boys

To the Brothers who run the school the symbol of sin is the corner milk bar where boys and girls meet.

The elderly owner suffers from melancholia leaving their survival to his teenage daughter (Mary Stuart Masterton).

Dunn falls for her and together they outwit the establishment.

Catholic Boys is a predictable yet very enjoyable film. Its typecasting is brilliant, everyone fits and the gags keep coming.

It's too literal to be a satire, yet it verges on it at times; a sadistic Brother is too near reality for pure wit.

Conclusion: Movie 75% Extras 60%

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