Three gay couples, all of whom are suffering relationship problems, spend a weekend at the seaside and learn how to deal with their issues from each other.

The film was James Dreyfus' last role as an unknown before taking the part of Constable Goody in The Thin Blue Line.

The film's closing music is Dinah Washington's I Wish I Knew the Name (Of the Boy in My Dreams)".

General critical reviews were mixed, with one describing the film as "a biting, shrewd and scathingly funny dissection of gay relationships".

[1] Another critic, however, wrote "Boyfriends suffers from too many soap-opera-like subplots that seem set up to create tension".