The Boy Friend

One of Russell’s most playful—and least hallucinogenic—films, this backstage drama wants nothing more than to pay lavish tribute to the Busby Berkeley musical extravaganzas of the 1930s through the sincerest form of flattery. A young understudy gets her chance to shine; she goes out on that stage a nobody, but comes back a star! Truly, there is no business like show business. A guilty pleasure.