Get Real is a sweet-natured coming-out comedy from England that seems to be coming out about 10 years too late.
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01/01/00
Get Real (1999)
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Reviews Counted:44
Fresh:34
Rotten:10
Average Rating:6.4/10
Consensus: An authentic portrayal of homosexuality in high school, Get Real is an engaging dramedy that doesn't sermonize its audience nor trivialize its characters.
Runtime: 1 hr 51 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Love blooms in this coming-of-age/coming-out film about a British prep student who follows his heart into uncharted territories.
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Reviews for Get Real
Top CriticGet Real mainstreams gayness in an unthreatening way: the appealing gay character is set up as the audience's point of identification and the phobes are the obvious villains. This might be considered progress, for now.
01/01/00
Wilde's script, which has a weakness for mild, snickering double entendres, is notable for its near-total reliance on archetypes.
01/01/00
Top CriticThe movie bravely goes where too many other films have gone before.
02/21/04
Top CriticGet Real may fulfill a desire in some to see simple-minded views expressed cinematically in feel-good fables (at whatever cost to narrative logic or character development), but these actors deserve better.
01/01/00
Trite replaces the notion of lighthearted, and it’s a quickly tiresome unromantic soap.
01/01/00
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.
12/06/05
Feeling like it was filmed in (get) real time, the picture slowly winds its way through sentiments not seen this side of soap operas and bad after-school specials.
01/01/00
With a little refurbishment, Get Real could realize potential that gets buried in this movie by its banality.
01/01/00
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.
07/24/07
The performances are solid throughout, and the writing is straightforward and tight.
12/06/05
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01/01/00
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.
07/24/07
Fresh, funny and thoroughly engaging.
07/24/07
Funny, well made, and thought provoking on many levels.
01/01/00
Celebrates the right of every person to put forward his or her true self every day without reservation or hesitation.
03/03/02
The film as a whole is involving, one which succeeds not only as entertainment but could be used as a primer for kids even on the junior high school level to teach toleration and, even better, acceptance of those whose ways of thinking less popular.
01/01/00
Silverstone perfectly conveys Steven's fears, desires and sometimes naive hopes, along with his growing determination to proclaim his identity.
01/01/00
In Steven, John, and their friends, Shore gives us individuals worth caring about in situations we can all relate to, regardless of our sexual orientation.
01/01/00
Top Criticsucceeds in conveying the misery that always results when people try to hide their true selves to impress others.
09/28/05
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