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Boys on the Side is a American comedy-drama film directed by Herbert Ross (in his final film as a director) and written by Don Roos. It stars Whoopi Goldberg, Mary-Louise Parker and Drew Barrymore. Real estate agent Robin finds Jane to share a ride in her car with Jane from New York to Los Angeles. They end up taking Jane's friend Holly with them for the trip west. The three vastly. Never one to give a flying you-know-what, Whoopi Goldberg has made a career out of not caring. Ask her about her sexuality — to some, a lingering enigma since the '70s, when Goldberg made lots of lesbians laugh at San Francisco comedy clubs — and she doesn't get all the fuss.

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Whoopi Goldberg, Mary-Louise Parker and Drew Barrymore star in the film BOYS ON THE SIDE, which features a screenplay by out gay writer Don Roos. Thinking back on the movie Sister Act — which first hit theaters 28 years ago — you might think the gayest thing about it was the fact that Whoopi Goldberg plays a character with the dragtastic name of Deloris Van Cartier. It does.

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The opening is a Meet Cute. A singer named Jane (Whoopi Goldberg) gets fired from her job in a crummy New York club, and decides to head west in search of her destiny. She answers an ad from a woman named Robin (Mary-Louise Parker) who has a car and is looking for someone to share the driving. Robin is, Jane decides, “the whitest human in America.” How white? She once sang “Close to You. A black Southern woman struggles to find her identity after suffering abuse from her father and others over four decades. When a nightclub singer is forced to take refuge from the mob in a convent, she ends up turning the convent choir into a soulful chorus complete with a Motown repertoire, until the sudden celebrity of the choir jeopardizes her identity.

Boys On The Side movie review (1995)

Whoopi Goldberg (as a lesbian musician) and Mary-Louise Parker in the film BOYS ON THE SIDE, which features a screenplay by out gay writer Don Roos. (Full post, and streaming options, on the QCA. As the camera pans around it, we remember who was in it, and how much we grew to care about them. We may be a little surprised by how that happened, because the movie starts out seeming contrived and routine, and only gradually gathers power until, by the end, it is completely involving.

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