Get the Girl

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In GET THE GIRL, a wealthy young man is conned into staging a fake kidnapping in order to be a hero and win the affection of a girl he's madly in love with. But when one of the hired kidnappers is accidentally killed during the charade, he's forced to actually save her life while not revealing that it's been a ruse all along.

Rating:

R (for bloody violence, language throughout, drug use and brief sexual content/nudity.)
Genre:

Action & Adventure, Comedy
Directed By:

Eric England
Written By:

Eric England
In Theaters:

Jan 27, 2017 limited
Runtime:

87 minutes
Studio:

Vertical Entertainment

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Cast

Justin Dobies
as Clarence

Noah Segan
as Patrick

Elizabeth Whitson
as Alexandra

Scout Taylor-Compton
as Jade

James Landry Hébert
as Kim/Carl

Adi Shankar
as K.J.

Daniel Quinn
as Officer Talley

Jerry Purpdrank
as Embry

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Critic Reviews for Get the Girl

All Critics (8) | Top Critics (3)

Get the Girl unfortunately gets crushed by its own, voluminous preposterousness.

Feb 3, 2017 | Full Review…

Craig D. Lindsey
L.A. Weekly
Top Critic
The film never feels honestly menacing, or gritty enough to have actual tension.

Jan 27, 2017 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…

Brian Tallerico
RogerEbert.com
Top Critic
A staged kidnapping isn't the only thing that goes from botched to worse where the tone-deaf black comedy-thriller "Get the Girl" is concerned.

Jan 26, 2017 | Full Review…

Michael Rechtshaffen
Los Angeles Times
Top Critic
Glossy, noisy and a little bit dull, Get the Girl is the kind of the film you'd thought they'd stopped making

Mar 20, 2017 | Full Review…

John Noonan
FILMINK (Australia)
Get the Girl has a few intriguing touches.

Feb 3, 2017 | Rating: 82/100 | Full Review…

Dan Lybarger
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Get the Girl never moves far beyond the shallow waters of post-modern deconstruction.

Jan 30, 2017 | Full Review…

Sean K. Cureton
Film Inquiry
Ridiculous dark-comedy thriller [...] tries to subvert rom-com clichés. Instead it just subverts good moviemaking.

Jan 26, 2017 | Full Review…

Frank Lovece
Film Journal International
We've seen much of what this movie is offering in other pictures, challenging England to come up with something memorable to keep audiences engaged.

Jan 26, 2017 | Rating: C | Full Review…

Brian Orndorf
Blu-ray.com

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Audience Reviews for Get the Girl

Aug 02, 2017

I rarely concern myself with the sexuality of characters in film, I think nine times out of ten a romance hinders more than it helps, but with Get the Girl I'd like to float you the idea of how drastically the script would be changed if the lead was gay. Keep everything else the same, but change is sexuality and you have (in my opinion) a much more enjoyable film. Obviously, that is not the case, so instead my takeaway from Get the Girl is two simple facts, the first was some new information, and the second was just confirming something I already knew: 1) There is a person on this Earth by the name of Jerry Purpdrank, and 2) Adi Shankar is a weird fuckin' dude.

Gimly M Super Reviewer