Just Getting Started

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Just Getting Started

PG-13

2017

1h 31m

Holiday

Comedy

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Duke Diver is living the high life as the freewheeling manager of a luxurious resort in Palm Springs, Calif. He soon faces competition from Leo, a former military man who likes the same woman that Duke is interested in. When Diver's past suddenly catches up with him, he must put aside his differences and reluctantly team up with Leo to stop whoever is trying to kill him.

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Critics Consensus

A thoroughly unfunny misfire, Just Getting Started manages the incredible feat of wasting more than a century of combined acting experience from its three talented leads.

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Andrea Gronvall

Chicago Reader

Mar 25, 2020

The producers must think this drivel is what their senior target audience wants, but only someone who's lost an appetite for real life could find any entertainment in it.

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Ben Sachs

Chicago Reader

Dec 14, 2017

The climactic 20 minutes of Just Getting Started are so lazily directed that I wondered why Shelton bothered trying to put action into the movie at all.

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Marc Savlov

Austin Chronicle

Dec 14, 2017

0.5/5

If this is what the "golden years" are going to be like, count me out.

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Francis X. Friel

Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

Mar 21, 2019

2/5

Scripts this bad will sometimes seem fun with enough enthusiasm behind or in front of the camera, but the star power on display isn't enough to make this anything but a (hopefully) forgettable misstep for all involved.

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Allen Adams

The Maine Edge

Feb 8, 2019

0/5

Just Getting Started never actually gets started, sputtering along until it finally loses steam and creaks to a predictable conclusion. It isn't funny, it isn't engaging and it just isn't any good.

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Jim Lane

Sacramento News & Review

Dec 21, 2017

1/5

The movie is a ghastly, ramshackle mess, lurching from gag to clunking gag and exacerbated by Barry Peterson's harsh cinematography, making everyone look considerably older than they are.

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Robert P

@Superbad Oct 21, 2026

Just Getting Started is a .5 star Movie!

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Austin B

@RT35999578 Sep 13, 2026

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bowen T

@bowen5252 Jan 20, 2026

I made an account literally just to say how garbage movie critics are and that this movie is funny. just watch the movie for yourself and stop believing these losers as if they know what they're talking about. being a movie critic is not a real job, you're tmz slop.

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Dean G.

@Dean92234 Dec 8, 2025

Unforgettably dreadful.

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Tom W

@RT99757709 Nov 30, 2025

I'm not sure why, but I just started the third time watching. I enjoy the stars performances in spite of the lousy script.

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Matt S

@RT81226626 Jul 13, 2025

This is the worst movie I’ve ever seen. I can’t believe these actors actually finished this movie. I can’t believe I finished this movie.

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Synopsis

Duke Diver is living the high life as the freewheeling manager of a luxurious resort in Palm Springs, Calif. He soon faces competition from Leo, a former military man who likes the same woman that Duke is interested in. When Diver's past suddenly catches up with him, he must put aside his differences and reluctantly team up with Leo to stop whoever is trying to kill him.

Director: Ron Shelton
Producer: Bill Gerber, Steve Richards
Screenwriter: Ron Shelton
Distributor: Broad Green Pictures
Production Co: Gerber Pictures, Endurance Media
Rating: PG-13 (Language|Brief Violence|Suggestive Material)
Genre: Holiday, Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Dec 8, 2017, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Feb 27, 2018
Box Office (Gross USA): $5.5M
Runtime: 1h 31m
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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