Get Real (1998)
Average Rating: 6.4/10
Reviews Counted: 46
Fresh: 36 | Rotten: 10
An authentic portrayal of homosexuality in high school, Get Real is an engaging dramedy that doesn't sermonize its audience nor trivialize its characters.
Average Rating: 6.6/10
Critic Reviews: 15
Fresh: 12 | Rotten: 3
An authentic portrayal of homosexuality in high school, Get Real is an engaging dramedy that doesn't sermonize its audience nor trivialize its characters.
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Movie Info
This gay coming-of-age drama from Britain was screened at many film festivals including Toronto, Edinburgh, and the 1999 Sundance Film Festival (World Cinema section). It tells the story of 16-year-old Steven (Ben Silverstone), a boy who can't tell anyone of his sexual preference except an overweight girl named Linda, who is also unlucky in love. Steven (and most of his school's female student body) have a crush on John, the school hunk, who dates a model. Before long, John and Steven finally
Apr 30, 1999 Wide
Feb 22, 2000
Paramount Pictures
Cast
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Ben Silverstone
Steven Carter -
Brad Gorton
John Dixon -
Charlotte Brittain
Linda -
Stacy A. Hart
Jessica -
Kate McEnery
Wendy -
Tim Harris
Kevin -
James D. White
Dave -
Patrick Nielsen
Mark -
Louise J. Taylor
Christina Lindmann
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All Critics (48) | Top Critics (15) | Fresh (36) | Rotten (10) | DVD (2)
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.
Top CriticFresh, funny and thoroughly engaging.
An issue movie, a comedy, and a love story, this is pretty good at being all three.
The film is grounded in genuine emotions and its knowing humour serves it well. I laughed like a drain.
The movie bravely goes where too many other films have gone before.
Yes, we've heard the tale before, but somehow it just never gets stale: Welcome to another instalment of Romeo and Romeo.
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.
Charming and romantic enough to get by.
The performances are solid throughout, and the writing is straightforward and tight.
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.
succeeds in conveying the misery that always results when people try to hide their true selves to impress others.
It does a fair job and director Shore elicits a solid performance by Silverstone.
Anchored by a touching lead performance by Silverstone.
above the usual mundane coming of age genre films
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.
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.
It allows its kids to be themselves and to simply 'be' without judgment. That's an empowering enough message for any movie.
Celebrates the right of every person to put forward his or her true self every day without reservation or hesitation.
Película inteligente que trata sobre amor y no sobre sexo, que muestra un lado poco conocido de la comunidad gay
Audience Reviews for Get Real
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- Kevin: Oye, Carter! Not exactly an oil painting is she?
- Linda: No, she's cuddly. And until a few seconds ago, you assumed that because I'm a fat girl and instead of some slim oil painting that I'd be gagging for a quick on in the doorways of Toys R Us. I can just imagine sex with you. Pathetic fumbling to find the bra strap, the slobbery kisses, belching into some poor girl's mouth because you've had too much chile sauce on your kabob. And then the main event, which is either over in seconds or not at all because you're too fuckin pissed.
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- Linda: He's sex on legs.
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- Jessica: Which piece are you learning?
- Wendy: Romeo, Romeo. Cover me in honey and suck it off with a straw.
- Jessica: What?
- Wendy: [Looking at John Dixon] God, he's perfect.
- Jessica: Fancy him, do you?
- Wendy: He can pass me his baton any day. [the rests of the girls giggles]
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- John Dixon: What time your parents due back?
- Steven Carter: [from down stairs] Oh their back. They're down here with me.
- John Dixon: [fumbles to get his pants on] Shit! Shit! Shit ! Shit!
- Steven Carter: Mum says if you make an honest man out of me, she'll help me choose the curtains.
- John Dixon: [sighs in relief] Wanker! You wanker!
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- Linda: Kevin Granger, he thinks just because he's got a prick that he's God's gift to women-kind!
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