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: 2.35:1
Running Time: 110 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-02-22
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Paramount
Movie Reviews of Get Real
Movie Review: Coming of age and coming out.
Summary: 4 Stars
Teenager Steven is gay but doesn't want anyone to know besides his neighbor. This causes him a great deal of angst, and suspicions rise among the student body at his school in Britain. Steven and John, an athletic golden boy and the object of the girls' desire, carry on a secret affair. Of course, nothing stays secret forever, and John turns out to the be far weaker than the courageous Steven, who even pens an article called "Get Real" about his situation and gets it published in the school magazine.
To get real is to get honest and to stop pretending and faking, no matter what the consequences might be. That's the message here, sent loudly and clearly.
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 FetzerArt House & International DVD Video
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