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The Boys Next Door

The story of THE BOYS NEXT DOOR, written by Tom Griffin, takes place in a New England city, where four mentally handicapped men live under the supervision of an earnest, but increasingly "burned out" young social worker named Jack. Norman works in a pastry shop and is unable to resist the lure of sweet pastries. He takes great pride in the huge bundle of keys that dangles from his waist. Lucien P. Smith has the mind of a five-year-old but imagines that he is able to read and comprehend the weighty books he lugs around. Arnold, the ringleader of the group, is a hyperactive, compulsive chatterer, who suffers from deep-seated insecurities and a persecutions complex, while Barry, a brilliant schizophrenic who is devastated by the unfeeling rejection of his brutal father, fantasizes that he is a golf pro. Mingled with scenes from the daily lives of these four, where "little things" sometimes become momentous (and often very funny), are moments of great poignancy when, with touching effectiveness, we are reminded that the handicapped, like each of us, want only to love and laugh and find meaning and purpose in the brief time that we are allotted on this earth.

"THE BOYS NEXT DOOR" moves the audience to an awareness of how many things in everyday life we take for granted..." -- NY Times