blog the hegemony

Nick May is Ricky “The Houseboy” in this 2007 independent film. Overhearing that he’s going to be replaced with a “new toy for Christmas” by the couple he’s living with, he goes on a spree of pickups while they’re gone and plans to kill himself on Christmas Eve, dramatically leaving his body for them to find. As he makes his way through a series of tricks, he tells them that he’s planning on suicide getting little sympathy from any of them. Finally he clicks with a young man he meets in the park.