The Skinny (film)
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| Directed by | Patrik-Ian Polk |
| Written by | Patrik-Ian Polk |
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Jussie Smollett Anthony Burrell Blake Young-Fountain Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman Shanika Warren-Markland |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
The Skinny is a 2012 American romantic comedy-drama film from Patrik-Ian Polk, the creator of the LOGO television series, Noah's Arc. It was released on April 6, 2012 in select theaters. Producers include Juan Battle and Michael Bennett.
Magnus (Jussie Smollett), an affluent young medical student, is happily in a five-month relationship with his boyfriend, Ryan (Dustin Ross). Magnus's Brown University college friends join him in New York City for Gay Pride for the weekend: lesbian Yale University PhD student and gay-porn aficionado Langston (Shanika Warren-Markland); innocent and sometimes childlike Sebastian (Blake Young-Fountain), who has just come back from a year in Paris paid for by his parent's trust fund; promiscuous Kyle (Anthony Burrell), now living in Los Angeles and enjoying a career in film production; and witty and sarcastic Joey (Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman). Ryan gives Magnus the weekend alone to enjoy his time with his friends, and Magnus reveals to them that he and Ryan have agreed on a six-month abstinence pledge so they can appreciate one another more deeply than the physical level. Magnus takes them all to see the former home of Langston Hughes in Harlem, and the group reflects on their cultural history, while Magnus and Sebastian recite lines from Hughes's poetry.
At a club on the friends' first night out together, Kyle hooks up with a stranger in the bathroom, while Joey fawns over an attractive go-go boy, Junot, and Langston over a sultry bartender, Savannah. Both are afraid to approach the objects of their desire, Langston especially after an awkward encounter with Savannah. Sebastian reveals to Magnus that he is still a virgin and is secretly in love with Kyle, wanting him to be his "first". Kyle's promiscuity is not an issue for him.
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