Home Media
The Boys in the Band was released on VHS by Fox Home Entertainment on December 6, 1980. It was later released on laserdisc. The DVD, overseen by Friedkin, was released by Paramount Home Entertainment on November 11, 2008. Additional material includes an audio commentary; interviews with director Friedkin, playwright/screenwriter Crowley, executive producer Dominick Dunne, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Tony Kushner, and two of the surviving cast members, Peter White and Laurence Luckinbill; and a retrospective look at both the off Broadway 1968 play and 1970 film.
A 2011 documentary, Making the Boys, explores the production of the play and movie in the context of its era.
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