The actual villain of “My Faux Boyfriend,” from the director Rose Troche, is New York Metropolis relationship tradition. Everybody appears perpetually prepared to maneuver onto the following hottie or hookup app that grabs their consideration.
That’s partly why Andrew — the protagonist, performed by Keiynan Lonsdale — has been tolerating Nico (Marcus Rosner), an egomaniacal cleaning soap opera star. Aiming to chop Andrew off from Nico, Jake, Andrew’s greatest good friend (performed by Dylan Sprouse), devises a faux boyfriend for him, blasting Photoshopped couple pics throughout Andrew’s social media timelines. His scheme yields mischief, reckonings, and, finally, actual romance.
To set expectations, it’s greatest to consider “My Faux Boyfriend” as two motion pictures. There’s the homosexual rom-com, targeted on Andrew, that Satisfaction month viewers have presumably tuned in for, after which there’s an virtually “Black Mirror”-ish comedy, centered on Jake, a couple of meddling techie who will get caught up in his greatest good friend’s life. As a result of it’s such a fancy set piece — creating and sustaining a faux individual on-line is kind of an enterprise, even on this film, the place the logistics are oddly breezy — Jake’s pixelated dreamboat takes up display screen time that might be higher spent on Andrew’s quest for actual love.
That’s to not say Jake is an entire distraction. He has a number of the zaniest traces, and Sprouse is delightfully recreation for all of them. However as soon as Andrew meets Rafi (performed by Samer Salem, who might most likely seduce a wall), it’s exhausting to need to watch anything. Their chemistry is off the charts, although this movie’s R score is tragically all discuss, no motion.
My Faux Boyfriend
Rated R for rowdy humor. Working time: 1 hour half-hour. Watch on Amazon.