Rate this Movie 
How does the Tomatometer work
Reviews Counted:23
Fresh:10
Rotten:13
Average Rating:5.5/10
Consensus: A hipster take on the well-traveled road movie, The Go-Getter features nice performances, but ultimately fails to carve its own path.
Theatrical Release:Jun 6, 2008 Limited
Synopsis: Ward, The Go-Getter is the story of Mercer White (Lou Taylor Pucci), a straight-arrow 19 year-old who, eight months after the death of his mother, steals a car and sets out to find his older... [More]
If you can look past writer-director Martin Hynes's familiar fest formula, his film modestly rewards with gorgeous sun-spotted cinematography, tender digressions in rather brave quantities, and believably charming dialogue.
Given proper promotion, however, one can see Merce--and The Go-Getter--getting chased down by appreciative arthouse audiences.
Even when relegated to an audio-only part, Deschanel has a flattering whimsy that etches her hurt and sensuality in equal measures.
Martin Hynes’s first film, The Go-Getter, is an especially wonderful addition to the [road movie] genre, with the right -- flickering -- mixture of loneliness and enchantment, and with jokes that come at you from just around the bend.
Top CriticClick to read the article
It's a great premise, and the movie rarely disappoints. (OK, we didn't need the song-and-dance number, but still ...) Hynes has style to spare and storytelling chops. The low-key Go-Getter is well worth discovering.
More than a movie about becoming an adult, The Go-Getter is a feature-length audition reel for Deschanel to finally get the roles she deserves.
Director-writer Martin Hynes shapes his first movie into something emotionally truthful, painfully funny and vibrantly alive.
Top CriticMuch of the dialogue is so quirky it sounds overheard instead of scripted. The performances are correspondingly spontaneous.
Top CriticWriter-director Martin Hynes takes advantage of the vast possibilities of the open road and what can only be refashioned personal experience to invigorate The Go-Getter, an unusually fresh-feeling indie with a nice sense of style.
Top CriticThere are moments of beauty here, but not enough to make up for the mannered dialogue and hamstrung performances.
Top CriticBehold, indie-rock hipsters: The Go-Getter, the cinematic navel lint from which She & Him crawled out to produce the almost cruel monotony of Volume One.
Another dull indie road movie that doesn't really go anywhere ... little more than a vanity project that wastes most of its better-than-average cast.
Strives for hipness but ultimately just feels contrived and derivative.
Hipster filmmaking-by-numbers.
The Go-Getter is a nearly perfect demonstration of what happens when what was once a frontier for exploration becomes a factory floor for repetition.
Seems to have sprung from a how-to-get-to-Sundance template, with a framework plot that serves as a mere Christmas tree on which to hang baubles of quirk.
Hopefully, future film classes will use this picture as template for how not to make a movie.
It’s cute, familiar and forgettable.
The first road movie that could fit into the mumblecore genre of dithering youth angst: The Go-Getter travels, but it doesn't go anywhere.
Top Critic
May 25, 2008:
Trailer & Poster review 
More...
January 30, 2007:
Sundance Reviews: Short and Sweet, A Review Roundup
We know some of you hate reading those cumbersome long reviews, so here's a gaggle of Sundance screening write-ups in three sentences or less. See if you can look forward to... More...
Last week, MSN gave us their top 09 films. Now see what their favorites of the decade are!
Here's a list of the 50 best movies of 2009, according to the good people over at Moviefone.
Hollywood.com takes a stab at determining who in movies will be on Santa's naughty list in 2009.
TIME chimes in with their own list of the best films released this year.
Click through to see which movies BuzzSugar placed in their Best-of-Decade list!
Get the latest Tomatometer updates on upcoming movies!
RSS Feeds
Comment
