Get Real
by Simon Shore
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Actor: Ben Silverstone, Brad Gorton, Charlotte Brittain, Kate McEnery, Stacy HartDirector: Simon Shore
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Letterbox, 2.35:1
Running Time: 110 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-07-11
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Paramount
Movie Reviews of Get Real
Movie Review: Get This! It is very good, makes you smile, makes you think, makes you want more!
Summary: 5 Stars
Let's not muck around - this is excellent cominig of age stuff. Some of the acting needs work but get over that. It is a story of unrequited love with an impossible outcome becoming suddenly a reality with infinite possibilities. Steven spends time in public toilets seeking gay encounters and he finds them...school uniform and all. He gets more than he bargained for when John, the school hottie turns up...talk about awkward. You could suspect a trap, gay bashing, gay outing...but no, John is emabarrassed and awkward. The relationship starts and stops and stutters. John wants to pusue Steven but he is the geek, the target of bullying by John's set of friends (the tossers, no that is not what they call themselve it is what they are). Steven knows who he i (smart, gay, not into sports) , and so does his best friend Linda - played very well. She is the comic counterpoint for the deep and meaningful pathos of the lead characters. The relationship between the boys develops in secret but it looks set to fizzle into obscurity. However, the night of the school dance, when Steven has lost all hope John surprises him and the relationship, in all it's glory, begins. It is a secret of course, only Linda knows, but Steven's mother is becoming aware of the difference and the signs, realising he is gay. The relationship develops and Steven wants more, he wants equal billing with John's official girlfriend. There is a cute scene where John is holding Steven and says "You need a shave" and Steven replies "I shaved last week"...cute, cute, cute. Steven comes out in an article for the school paper, anonymously. The article is banned. Steven is caught smelling John's clothing by the tossers and John. John deals with Steven by beating him, well so the tossers think. In fact they are staging the beating...and almost end up kissing. As the lips are about to lock the lead tosser comes in and catches them, so the beating becomes real so John can cover the love he feels. Steven then turns up at school assembly, beaten and bloody and outs himself - he does this while accepting a prize in front of dignitaries, staff, parents and the whole school. Shock, horror, acceptance and rejection ensue. By outing himself he has severed the relationship with John because John cannot face the shame and say he is gay - his parents and friends and the world have expecations of their bright light and he doesn't have the courage to say "That is not all there is to me, I am gay as well...not instead of, but as well". Steven did. There is no happy ending between the boys. John looking into the empty future without Steven, instead he has accolades and academia waiting...but not the love of a good boy... And Steven goes off into a future where he looks strong and as though the weight has been lifted. He is out and he is proud and he is who he is, no apologies. I recommend this...whatever age you are. It makes me smile...it reminds me of Beautiful Thing, I recommend you look at that too:-) Beautiful Thing
Summary of Get Real
Get Real begins with a couple of hedgehogs having sex, and deals with a topic just as prickly: gay love in adolescence. Steve (Ben Silverstone) is a student at a British school where everyone wears classy uniforms, knows he's gay, and is pretty comfortable being so. John (Brad Gorton), a top athlete and all-around admired guy, is just getting an inkling and isn't sure how he feels about it. This, cleverly, is how the movie manages to explore coming-out issues and be over them at the same time. In fact, the whole movie is pretty clever--witty dialogue, deft direction, nimble pacing, and clean editing--in exploring the seriousness of adolescent life without taking it too seriously. The key is in Silverstone's performance; he's a completely convincing mixture of hesitation and recklessness, all the conflicts of high school in one sweet-faced package. As the movie follows Steve and John's relationship--their evasions at school, getting picked up by the police in a park, goofing around in a heated swimming pool, grappling with coming out to the world at large--it lays out a bit of contrast with Steve's best friend Linda (Charlotte Brittain), who's as unapologetically fat as Steve is gay, and who's having an affair with her driving instructor. Excellent performances all around, funny, sexy, charming--if only straight teen comedies were half this good. Get Real even demonstrates the proper etiquette when soliciting sex in public restrooms; what more can you ask for? --Bret FetzerComedy DVD Video
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