Bart Got a Room (2008)
Average Rating: 6.2/10
Reviews Counted: 36
Fresh: 25 | Rotten: 11
Just enough sweetness and good performances lighten up the high school-set tensions, creating a family-appropriate teen comedy.
Average Rating: 6.1/10
Critic Reviews: 13
Fresh: 9 | Rotten: 4
Just enough sweetness and good performances lighten up the high school-set tensions, creating a family-appropriate teen comedy.
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Bart got a room -- a hotel room -- and he's booked it for senior prom night. Though the title character of Bart Got a Room only appears in one brief scene towards the end of the film, it's his uber-geek specter that hangs over writer-director Brian Hecker's comedy, a semi-autobiographical ode to teenage angst. The plot is centered on the hopelessly dateless Danny (Steven Kaplan), a gawky band nerd who must decide between taking his best friend, Camille (Alia Shawkat), to the prom, and attempting
Apr 3, 2009 Wide
Jul 28, 2009
Anchor Bay Entertainment
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Cast
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William H. Macy
Ernie Stein -
Cheryl Hines
Beth Stein -
Steven Kaplan
Danny Stein -
Alia Shawkat
Camille -
Brandon Hardesty
Craig -
Ashley Benson
Alice -
Chad Jamian Williams
Bart -
Jennifer Tilly
Melinda -
Kate Micucci
Abby -
Jon Polito
Bob -
Dinah Manoff
Mrs. Goodson -
Michael Mantell
Dr. Goodson
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All Critics (36) | Top Critics (13) | Fresh (26) | Rotten (12) | DVD (5)
Here's something you don't see every day: a high-school comedy for old poops.
Top CriticBart Got A Room is an affectionately nuanced comedy of manners whose focus is first love and the navigation of complex relationships.
The sweet, dizzy finale makes up for all the predictability before it.
Hines and Macy get some laughs, but the film itself feels insufficiently developed.
It's an inventive take on a story that we've heard a million times before.
The sight of William H. Macy sporting a Jew-fro as a divorced dad trying to help his nerdy son score with a prom date is among the myriad delights in the gut-bustingly funny Bart Got a Room.
Sweetly neurotic countdown-to-the-prom captures teen life in South Florida.
An uninterrupted string of frustratingly false moments marked by a consistent, wide gulf between what it actually says and what its characters purport that others are saying.
A charming romantic comedy which proves it's still possible to find funny teen-oriented fare that doesn't rely on relentlessly crude and profane humor.
Hecker's film finds a charm that eludes most movies dependent on misplaced prostitutes, bedroom sex noises and male insecurities.
totally wacky, a rite-of-passage romp
When we get to the prom, the music sounds like nothing you'd ever hear at one. In fact, I'd be surprised if any actual teenagers in the year 2009 found any reference points in Bart Got a Room relevant to their own existence.
...rarely holds the viewer's interest in as rapt a manner as Hecker presumably intended.
While hardly the most novel of stories, what puts Bart Got a Room above the norm is a tight and charming screenplay and Hecker's way with mood and place.
A fresh and amusing teen comedy all about the anxiety of trying to find a date for the prom.
Bart Got a Room pulls you into its comically hyperbolic world of teen anxiety %u2013 and is solid enough for long enough to disappoint you in the end.
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