Eban and Charley
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| Directed by | James Bolton |
| Produced by | Chris Monlux |
| Written by | James Bolton |
| Starring | Brent Fellows, Gio Black Peter |
| Music by | Stephin Merritt |
| Cinematography | Judy Irola |
| Edited by | Elizabeth Edwards |
| Distributed by | Picture This! Entertainment |
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86 minutes |
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| Soundtrack album by Stephin Merritt | ||||
| Released | January 22, 2002 | |||
| Genre | Pop music | |||
| Length | 36:58 | |||
| Label | Merge Records | |||
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| Metacritic | (68/100) |
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| AllMusic |   |
| Los Angeles Times | |
| Neumu | 7/10 |
| The New Rolling Stone Album Guide | |
| Pitchfork Media | 7.3/10 |
| PopMatters | (mixed) |
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| Village Voice |  |
Eban and Charley is a 2000 independent drama film written and directed by James Bolton. It follows the romantic relationship between Eban (Brent Fellows), a 29-year-old gay man, and Charley (Gio Black Peter), a 14-year-old boy. Despite being about a very controversial topic (namely, age disparity in sexual relationships), the film addresses these issues in a low-key, relaxed manner. The film also addresses the consequences that Eban and Charley's relationship provokes with their parents. Its plot is based on an incident in which one of Bolton's friends was dumped by his older boyfriend, because their parents did not approve of their age disparity.
The Magnetic Fields' Stephin Merritt wrote and recorded the soundtrack to the film. The soundtrack album was released on January 22, 2002 on Merge Records, and was Merritt's first recording under his birth name. Merritt told Rolling Stone that he wanted to keep the music to the film open-ended, saying of the film, "If it was a love story it would be gushy strings, and if it were a horror show it would be horn blasts, so I decided to go a third way."
According to Metacritic, the film's soundtrack album has received generally favorable reviews from critics, with a score of 68 out of 100.Richie Unterberger gave it 3 out of 5 stars in a review he wrote for AllMusic and named it his fifth favorite album of 2001 in his list for Rolling Stone, writing "This soundtrack isn't a major effort from the Magnetic Fields man, but a modest triumph of subdued gloom all the same."
The film was first released at the Frameline Film Festival (then known as the San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival) on June 12, 2000. On December 14, 2001, it was released on video by Picture This! Entertainment. In 2002, it opened at the Cinema Village in New York City.
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