The Boys in the Band

The Boys in the Band (2020) is a Netflix drama you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Joe Mantello from Mart Crowley's landmark 1968 play. Seven gay friends gather in a New York apartment for a birthday party — Jim Parsons, Zachary Quinto, Matt Bomer, and Andrew Rannells among them, the same ensemble that played the piece on Broadway in 2018.

The evening starts with cocktails and sharp wit. Then an unexpected guest arrives, and someone proposes a phone game: each man must call the one person he has truly loved. The drinks run low, the jokes get meaner, and every carefully maintained front starts to crack. What holds as comedy in the first hour turns into something harder to shake off. Stream The Boys in the Band (2020) on iFILM.