Boyfriend's Boyfriends
10m · USA
Directed by Joe Gleason
Genres: comedy
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, humorous
Alex joins her boyfriend on a weekend getaway and meets his friends. Over three days, their increasingly feral disregard for social norms reduces her to a witness at her own vacation.
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A girlfriend watching a friend group degrade into chaos — that's the comedy I want. Anything that takes the bro-hang and rotates the camera ninety degrees gets a yes from me.
Sketch-comedy juvenilia framed as a study of one woman watching the social contract collapse — Gleason lets the bro-energy curdle into Stillman-grade dread. The framing rescues what could have been disposable.
Sketch-comedy juvenilia weaponized into a character study of one woman watching a friend group collapse the social contract — that frame is the actual craft choice. Risk is if the boyfriends' bits aren't funny on their own merits.