Summary
REAL BOY is the coming-of-age story of Bennett Wallace, a transgender teenager on a journey to find his voice-as a musician, a friend, a son, and a man.
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Critics vs audiences
Critics like it more than audiences (+22)
Critics 100Audiences 78GoodWatch 84
Tomatometer100%
Audience score91%
IMDb7.2
Letterboxd · 232 ratings3.5/5
Running time
1 h 12 min
Shorter than 9 in 10 documentaries, −24 min on the typical 96
typical 9672Half of all documentaries run 89–107 min.
Reach
Streams in 2 countries, rent or buy in 21 more
Released
2016
March 21, 2016
10 years ago
Genre
DocumentaryLanguage
English
Original language
Made in
- United States
Directing · 1
- Shaleece Haas Director
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