Close your office door. Put your out-of-office notification on. Watch filmdom's superstars (and a few long-forgottens) portray working boys in these gritty films.
Paul America -- My Hustler (1965)
Joe Dallesandro -- Flesh (1968)Below: A tribute video to Joe Dallesandro in
Flesh
Jon Voight -- Midnight Cowboy (1969)Below: A montage of scenes
Peter McEnery -- Entertaining Mr. Sloane (1970)
Robert La Tourneaux -- The Boys in the Band (1970)
Kevin Bacon -- Forty Deuce (1982)
Robert Downey Jr. -- Less Than Zero (1987)
River Phoenix, Keanu Reeves -- My Own Private Idaho (1991)
Mike Dytri -- The Living End (1992)
Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Wahlberg -- The Basketball Diaries (1995)
Tony Ward -- Hustler White (1996)
David Arquette, Lukas Haas -- Johns (1996)
Michael Imperioli, James Duval -- River Made to Drown In (1997)
Jesse Bradford, Jonathan Taylor Thomas -- Speedway Junky (1999)
Paul Dano, Billy Kay -- L.I.E. (2001)
Nick Stahl -- Twist (2003)
Joseph Gordon-Levitt -- Mysterious Skin (2004)Tribute video:
Kevin Zegers -- Transamerica (2005)
Cillian Murphy -- Breakfast on Pluto (2005)