From the makers of "Party Monster" comes this lurid documentary about the seamy world of street hustlers. The producers recruited 101 hustlers from the Santa Monica Boulevard area in West Hollywood and paid each of them $50 for their time. All the hustlers, who were from diverse ethnic, racial, regional and economic backgrounds, were interviewed in various motel rooms on such topics as how they entered into prostitution, their sexual orientation, drugs, homelessness, and their first johns. They also explain how they dress, speak, act, think, give head, receive head, increase cash flow, keep safe, walk, eat, smoke, flirt, get turned-on, feel about love, and plans for the future. Viewers are introduced to a sadist, an ex-gang member, a transsexual, and many others. It focuses on a few of the boys more extensively than others and longer interviews with about two dozen expose the transient lives of men who sell their bodies to other men, with surprisingly little guilt or shame. Each rent boy was assigned a number--but not each one is identified in the film. While some of the men are interviewed in various states of undress and the talk sometimes becomes sexually explicit, the film itself contains no sexual activity.
The DVD has a feature where each of the hustlers were left alone with the camera for five minutes to do whatever they choose. In this feature, several participants masturbate. A companion book, also called "101 Rent Boys", was published featuring photos and excerpts from the interviews. Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato directed.
