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03/03/02
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
Película inteligente que trata sobre amor y no sobre sexo, que muestra un lado poco conocido de la comunidad gay
03/07/01
Shore and Wilde have done an admirable job in re-imagining Wilde's play as a movie, and they've created a wrenching, thoughtful entertainment that incorporates considerable comic relief.
02/14/01
Top CriticGet Real is a sweet-natured coming-out comedy from England that seems to be coming out about 10 years too late.
01/01/00
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01/01/00
Get 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 CriticFunny, well made, and thought provoking on many levels.
01/01/00
Get 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 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 CriticIt is a very well-acted piece, one that is certainly leaps and bounds better than other recent films with similar subject matter.
01/01/00
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
A coming-of-age movie with soul and substance.
01/01/00
With a little refurbishment, Get Real could realize potential that gets buried in this movie by its banality.
01/01/00
A film that solidly handles difficult issues with flair, gentle humor, and often, a touching grace.
01/01/00
The movie is sound in all the right ways; it argues that we are as we are, and the best thing to do is accept that.
01/01/00
Top CriticIt offers a far more realistic and compelling vision of teen-age growing pains and peer pressure than any of the recent high-school movies from Hollywood.
01/01/00
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