I think it was a little indie film that flew under their radar.
One lad was extremely traumatised by it and the one who liked it had a dead dad and an alcoholic mum and was looking for affection in the wrong places and idealised it.
Every sex scene in that book is extremely icky though. There was one where the gay guy is hustling and he has to massage this guy who's all covered in AIDS lesions then jerk off in front of him. The other guy has this fat and aging spinster throw herself at him and the details of that are nearly as off-putting.