Two teenage track teammates discover that first love may be harder to outrun than anything waiting at the finish line when Boys arrives on Tubi October 11.
Remind MeWinning a race is supposed to be the complicated part.
For Sieger, running makes sense. There's a lane, a finish line, and a pretty clear understanding of what you're supposed to do between the two. Then Marc joins his relay team, and the summer comes with something considerably harder to measure.
Boys arrives on Tubi October 11, following 15-year-old Sieger as training for an important relay championship brings him closer to fellow runner Marc. The attraction is there. So are the lingering looks, quiet moments, and growing realization that whatever is happening between them isn't going to stay safely inside the friendship category. Sieger is much better at running forward on the track than confronting what he wants off it, giving the romance its push and pull as Marc becomes increasingly difficult to keep at a distance.
It's a tender addition to Tubi's LGBTQ+ storytelling, where figuring out who you are can be messy, exhilarating, terrifying, or all three before you've even found the words for it. For Sieger, one summer is about to make standing still much harder.
Sieger spends much of Boys trying to keep feelings contained that Blom lets us see anyway. His performance is quiet and inward, making hesitation, stolen looks, and the distance Sieger tries to put between himself and Marc carry as much weight as anything he actually says. Blom makes the character's resistance feel less like uncertainty about Marc and more like a teenager struggling with what accepting those feelings might change about the life he already understands. His performance earned a Best Actor nomination at the 2014 Netherlands Film Festival.
Marc is more comfortable letting their connection exist, and Zandvliet gives him an openness that gently challenges Sieger's instinct to retreat. There's confidence in the way Marc approaches their growing attraction, but Zandvliet doesn't turn him into someone untouched by Sieger's hesitation; the warmth works because vulnerability sits underneath it. Marc may be more willing to move toward what he wants, but he still has to decide how long he's willing to wait for Sieger to meet him there.
Home gives Sieger another version of adolescence to measure himself against through his older brother Eddy. Smulders brings a more rebellious, outward energy to the character, whose clashes with their father and confidence in his own life contrast with Sieger's quieter way of navigating uncertainty. Rather than existing only to create family tension, Eddy helps establish another model of masculinity and growing up within the same household, giving Sieger's much more private coming-of-age experience something to push against.
Theo is raising Sieger and Eddy while trying to keep two very different sons moving in roughly the right direction, and Kas gives their father a concern that doesn't always translate neatly into connection. His performance keeps Theo grounded as a parent noticing when something is happening with Sieger without necessarily knowing what it is, while his more openly difficult relationship with Eddy adds another layer to the household. Kas won Best Supporting Actor at the 2014 Netherlands Film Festival for the role.
“This summer, the heart sets the pace.”
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