Get Over It (2001)
Runtime: 86 mins
Theatrical Release: Mar 9, 2001 Wide
Box Office: $11,294,663
Synopsis: Director Tommy O'Haver's (BILLY'S HOLLYWOOD SCREEN KISS) sophomore effort is a breezy teen romance that injects a much needed jolt of wit and energy into an overworked genre. Ben Foster (FREAKS AND GEEKS) stars as Berke, a fairly nondescript basketball player whose romance with the... Director Tommy O'Haver's (BILLY'S HOLLYWOOD SCREEN KISS) sophomore effort is a breezy teen romance that injects a much needed jolt of wit and energy into an overworked genre. Ben Foster (FREAKS AND GEEKS) stars as Berke, a fairly nondescript basketball player whose romance with the beautiful Allison (Melissa Sagemiller) has made him the happiest man in school as well as the envy of his classmates. Unfortunately, Allison doesn't feel the same way and dumps him in the opening minutes of the film. Determined to win her back, Berke auditions for the high school play, "A Midsummer Night's Rockin' Dream," in which Allison has snagged the lead role. Thwarting his hopes of reconciliation is the guy that Allison just started dating, Striker, a transfer student who heads a semi-famous boy band and sports a laughable European accent. Enlisting the help of his best friend's sister, Kelly (Kirsten Dunst), Berke tries to rehearse for the play and finds his emotions caught between his past with Allison and his burgeoning feelings for Kelly. Sweet and funny (especially during Martin Short's appearances as the play's name-dropping director), GET OVER IT is an excellent teen film bolstered by an exceptional cast. [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Kirsten Dunst, Ben Foster, Melissa Sagemiller, Ed Begley, Carmen Electra
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The kind of movie where only some of the characters have last names, this essentially sweet-natured enterprise feels slightly rushed and distracted.
Director O'Haver fails to supply any proper shape or development.
[Kirsten] Dunst seems to be a fairly decent actress; why she keeps appearing in the same movie over and over is beyond me.
O'Hayer has some way to go before doing a John Hughes (The Breakfast Club, Pretty In Pink) but Get Over It is a headstart.
While this film does not do anything extraordinary for its genre, it has its moments, and Dunst and Foster are able to generate reasonable chemistry in their utterly predictable situation.
There's something almost perverse about a show that only comes alive as the curtain rises and falls...
Sure, calling any flick "better than Van Wilder" is damning it with faint praise...but did I mention that this one's got Kirsten Dunst in it?
Shakespeare probably made the point best: Teens rule; parents drool.
Too many times, a strange brand of humor appears and sours the proceedings.
Features a dog humping a basketball, an electrocution, a cow urinating on the hero and kids drinking punch filled with vomit.
It's the sort of show Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney would have bounced through 60 years ago.
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