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Just enough sweetness and good performances lighten up the high school-set tensions, creating a family-appropriate teen comedy.
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Here's something you don't see every day: a high-school comedy for old poops. May 1, 2009 | Rating: 3/4
Here's something you don't see every day: a high-school comedy for old poops.
Stephen Cole
Bart Got A Room is an affectionately nuanced comedy of manners whose focus is first love and the navigation of complex relationships. May 1, 2009 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Bart Got A Room is an affectionately nuanced comedy of manners whose focus is first love and the navigation of complex relationships.
Greg Quill
The sweet, dizzy finale makes up for all the predictability before it. Apr 9, 2009 | Rating: 3/4
The sweet, dizzy finale makes up for all the predictability before it.
Roger Moore
Hines and Macy get some laughs, but the film itself feels insufficiently developed. Apr 6, 2009
Hines and Macy get some laughs, but the film itself feels insufficiently developed.
Ben Mankiewicz
It's an inventive take on a story that we've heard a million times before. Apr 6, 2009 | Full Review…
It's an inventive take on a story that we've heard a million times before.
Ben Lyons
The sight of William H. Macy sporting a Jew-fro as a divorced dad trying to help his nerdy son score with a prom date is among the myriad delights in the gut-bustingly funny Bart Got a Room. Apr 3, 2009 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
The sight of William H. Macy sporting a Jew-fro as a divorced dad trying to help his nerdy son score with a prom date is among the myriad delights in the gut-bustingly funny Bart Got a Room.
Lou Lumenick
Sweetly neurotic countdown-to-the-prom captures teen life in South Florida. Aug 15, 2011 | Full Review…
Sweetly neurotic countdown-to-the-prom captures teen life in South Florida.
Sarah Sluis
Most proms don't involve choreographed dances, losers winning prom queen or cameos by famous bands. Bart Got A Room is a much needed believable look at the big night. Aug 14, 2010 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…
Most proms don't involve choreographed dances, losers winning prom queen or cameos by famous bands. Bart Got A Room is a much needed believable look at the big night.
Perri Nemiroff
Hecker's film finds a charm that eludes most movies dependent on misplaced prostitutes, bedroom sex noises and male insecurities. May 15, 2009
Hecker's film finds a charm that eludes most movies dependent on misplaced prostitutes, bedroom sex noises and male insecurities.
Katherine Monk
totally wacky, a rite-of-passage romp May 9, 2009 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
totally wacky, a rite-of-passage romp
Paul Brenner
When we get to the prom, the music sounds like nothing you'd ever hear at one. In fact, I'd be surprised if any actual teenagers in the year 2009 found any reference points in Bart Got a Room relevant to their own existence. May 1, 2009 | Rating: 2.5/5
When we get to the prom, the music sounds like nothing you'd ever hear at one. In fact, I'd be surprised if any actual teenagers in the year 2009 found any reference points in Bart Got a Room relevant to their own existence.
Jim Slotek
...rarely holds the viewer's interest in as rapt a manner as Hecker presumably intended. May 1, 2009 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
...rarely holds the viewer's interest in as rapt a manner as Hecker presumably intended.
David Nusair
The story of high school senior Danny (Steven Kaplan), who's spent a small fortune on the hotel room, limo, and tux for his prom. What he doesn't have is a date because he's torn between taking someone with whom he can become romantically intimate and his best friend Camille (Alia Shawkat). In the meantime, his parents' divorce weighs heavily on his mind. Danny is a good kid who yearns to see his parents (the perky Cheryl Hines and the hilarious William H. Macy as Ernie who has turned to the web in order to find his soul mate) get back together so they can become a real family. ~Spoiler~ I absolutely loved the scene with Ernie, who is so bent on getting Danny a date for the prom that he ditches a date (with a character played by the gorgeous Jennifer Tilly), runs halfway across Hollywood and winds up picking an older and slightly plump prostitute for Danny to take to the big dance.
Super Reviewer
William H. Macy movies. What is it about his movies that I just love? He seems to always be in the quirkiest kind of movies that just make me chuckle. I really got a kick out of this movie, and couldnt wait to find out who the heck Bart was...
Typical "teenager on a quest to have sex" movie. Nothing spectacular but still kind of funny.
Bart Got a Room is a harmless, unremarkable movie. It's not excessively funny or surprising, but it's a pleasant way to spend an hour and a half. There are some funny parts, and it leaves you with a bit of a feel-good vibe after it's over. It's different and more heartfelt than your average teen comedy, and that's what makes it worth watching.
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