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Douglas Day Stewart (written by)
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5 May 1989 (USA) more
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It's about real life. more
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A group of college debaters learn about the world, friendships, love, dreams and family in this warm, endearing drama. | add synopsis
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1 win & 2 nominations more
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Kirk Cameron | ... | Tucker Muldowney |
 | Jami Gertz | ... | Monica Tomanski |
 | Roy Scheider | ... | Charlie Nichols |
 | Amanda Peterson | ... | Donna Lumis |
 | Tim Quill | ... | Garson McKellar (as Tim Quill) |
 | George Wyner | ... | Dean Schwimmer |
| Anthony Zerbe | ... | Senator McKellar |
 | Christopher Atkins | ... | Bruce Arlington |
| Quinn Cummings | ... | Susan Hooper |
| Timothy Dang | ... | Bobby Chin |
 | Peter DeLuise | ... | Cameron Sweet (as Peter De Luise) |
| Jason Gould | ... | Hinkelstein |
| Jon Matthews | ... | Braithwaite |
| Christopher Rydell | ... | Tom Lloynd |
 | Tom Schanley | ... | Stewart Shields |
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Australia:M | Iceland:L | Finland:K-12 | Sweden:11 | UK:15 | USA:PG-13
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Listen to Me is, quite frankly, spectacularly bad, which makes it hard to rate. It was, quite unintentionally, hysterical at moments, and I love such great debating advice as, "We're not going to win with facts, so let's go for drama!" and suggesting that a new plan should be run in the 2AR. As other reviewers have noted, it does NOT represent debate very accurately at all, and is highly melodramatic and overwrought. However, as a debater (policy for 2 years in high school, now into my 3rd year of parliamentary in college), I enjoyed watching it, at least once, because it was so unintentionally funny. My coach last spring had us watch it during a meeting and we all laughed nonstop because of its inherent stupidity. My advice: if you're a debater, you might think this hilarious. If you're not, you might not enjoy it. Additionally, don't for a moment think that's how REAL debate is done. Just to pick one example, I cannot even begin to imagine my coach advising me to make up stories in order to win rounds. Side note of interest to debaters: Tom Miller, who is a debate official in the film, is an actual college debate coach at UCLA.