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Get Real (1999)

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Reviews Counted: 44 Fresh: 34  Rotten:10 Average Rating: 6.4/10
 
Consensus: An engaging dramedy that doesn't sermonize its audience. An authentic portrayal of homosexuality in high school, Get Real is an engaging dramedy that doesn't sermonize its audience nor trivialize its characters. more
 
Runtime: 1 hr 51 mins
Synopsis:
Love blooms in this coming-of-age/coming-out film about a British prep student who follows his heart into uncharted territories. [More]
Love blooms in this coming-of-age/coming-out film about a British prep student who follows his heart into uncharted territories. [Less]

Genre: Comedies

Starring: Ben Silverstone, Brad Gorton, Charlotte Brittain

Director: Simon Shore
Screenwriter: Patrick Wilde
Producer: Stephen Taylor
Composer: John Lunn

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Feb 22, 2000

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The strength of this agreeable comedy, directed by Simon Shore from a screenplay by Patrick Wilde, is that it makes even the tiniest sexual encounters seem emotionally momentous.

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07/24/07 07:08 PM
David Edelstein
Slate
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Fresh, funny and thoroughly engaging.

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07/24/07 07:07 PM
Derek Elley
Variety
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Simon Shore's feature directing debut displays considerable confidence and aplomb. But his fairly hackneyed sense of storytelling seems to value accessibility above complexity, so don't expect any surprises.

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07/24/07 07:04 PM
Sandra Contreras
TV Guide's Movie Guide
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An issue movie, a comedy, and a love story, this is pretty good at being all three.

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07/24/07 07:03 PM
Lisa Alspector
Chicago Reader
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The film is grounded in genuine emotions and its knowing humour serves it well. I laughed like a drain.

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06/24/06 04:04 AM
Trevor Johnston
Time Out
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Charming and romantic enough to get by.

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06/03/06 04:08 AM
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid
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The performances are solid throughout, and the writing is straightforward and tight.

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12/06/05 07:49 PM
Allen White
Film Threat
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The rather unoriginal script, co-written by Shore and Patrick Wilde (who wrote the stage play upon which the film is based), has roughly an equal number of clever lines and embarrassing clunkers.

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12/06/05 07:49 PM
Ilana Lindsey
Film Threat
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succeeds in conveying the misery that always results when people try to hide their true selves to impress others.

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09/28/05 08:14 PM
James Sanford
Kalamazoo Gazette
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A by-the-numbers coming-out flick that's rescued by a bit of insight into human nature and some heartfelt performances.

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05/03/05 11:53 AM
Jeremy C. Fox
Pajiba
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It does a fair job and director Shore elicits a solid performance by Silverstone.

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04/09/05 03:47 AM
Robin Clifford
Reeling Reviews
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07/09/04 09:15 AM
Sarah Chauncey
Reel.com
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The movie bravely goes where too many other films have gone before.

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02/21/04 07:01 AM
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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Click to read review

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01/13/04 02:30 AM
Michael Dequina
Mr. Brown's Movies
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above the usual mundane coming of age genre films

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07/19/03 08:16 AM
John A. Nesbit
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02/28/03 09:57 AM
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
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Get Real is essentially a conventional tale of forbidden young love that derives its emotional appeal from heartfelt performances by its young cast, particularly the charming Mr. Silverstone.

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10/15/02 08:28 AM
Margaret A. McGurk
Cincinnati Enquirer
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When the film's poised tone and occasional staginess threaten to intrude on the moving, sincere, recognizably true drama, the fact that the source material comes from a recent work, not some 400-year-old play, keeps it real.

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06/18/02 08:22 AM
Wesley Morris
San Francisco Examiner
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It allows its kids to be themselves and to simply 'be' without judgment. That's an empowering enough message for any movie.

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04/03/02 08:19 AM
Paula Nechak
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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Yes, we've heard the tale before, but somehow it just never gets stale: Welcome to another instalment of Romeo and Romeo.

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03/19/02 08:18 AM
Rick Groen
Globe and Mail
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