Getting There (2002) (V)

Director:

Steve Purcell

Writer (WGA):

Michael Swerdlick (written by)

Release Date:

11 June 2002 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy

Tagline:

Sweet 16 and Licensed to Drive

Plot:

This film is about Mary-Kate and Ashley turning sixteen years old and going on a road trip without parents...

Plot Keywords:

Olympics | 16th Birthday | Birthday | Bus | Car

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Mary-Kate Olsen	...	Kylie Hunter
Ashley Olsen	...	Taylor Hunter
Billy Aaron Brown	...	Danny
Heather Lindell	...	Jenn
Jeff D'Agostino	...	Toast
Talon Ellithorpe	...	Sam
Holly Towne	...	Lyndi
Alexandra Picatto	...	Charley Simms
Janet Gunn	...	Pam Hunter
William Bumiller	...	Gary Hunter
Jason Benesh	...	Alexander
Ricki Lopez	...	Juan
Shelley Malil	...	Raj
Marcus Smythe	...	Mr. Simms
Cheyenne Wilbur	...	Male Proctor

Also Known As:

Getting There: Sweet 16 and Licensed to Drive (USA) (video box title)
Sweet 16 (USA) (working title)
The Road Trip (USA) (working title)

Runtime:

90 min | Canada:85 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English | Afrikaans

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

USA:G (certificate #39004)

Filming Locations:

Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

Company:

Dualstar Entertainment Group

Goofs:

Continuity: After Kylie discovers that Taylor, Lyndi, and Danny are not on the bus, they are, in a later scene, shown walking toward the front of the bus, with all their luggage, and they are presumably getting off. When the story later goes back to Kylie and the other three, the bus is driving up to a bus stop and they get off the bus. They should have already been off the bus, considering they would not be standing while the bus was still moving, and there was no-one else on the bus in the previous scene.

Quotes:

Charley Simms: Hey, I'm Charley.
Taylor Hunter: Taylor.
Charley Simms: You're either a mirage or lost cause I've never seen anyone my age around here.
Taylor Hunter: I'm real.
Charley Simms: How did you get up here? Sorry, none of my business.
Taylor Hunter: All I wanted was to go to the Olympics. Is that so much to ask. I mean I worked my butt off to get those tickets. I should have gone by myself, but no I had to make it a group trip with my sister and friends. And my luck I got stuck with a group that can do absolutely nothing right...
[...]

Soundtrack:

Go!

The glory of Toast!

This movie made me want to eat my own face. I'm always excited by how attractive the Olsen Twins are becoming, and the thought of them as young women in their twenties is more encouraging by the day, so where this movie has both of them getting their driver's license...well, I'm just happy to see time passing by so quickly. However, wow! Their movies are BAD!

Clearly, I'm not the ideal audience for this. Not rich, not a girl, not 13, no acute brain trauma that I'm aware of. So I shouldn't have rented this expecting highbrow entertainment, or a steamy seduction scene. Rather, I was treated to smoldering montages of youths enjoying winter sports, miscommunicating as per various modes of transportation, eating at a buffet. And, yes, the wonderful boy-clown, Toast! Good, funny Toast! Toast is a young man who is given the distinct comedic trademark of unintentionally wetting meals that people are excitedly preparing to eat. This happens on more than one occasion, and is surely the high point of the film. God love you, Toast!

I want to stop thinking about this film, it really is making me want to cry. Loud, racking sobs. Oh. Oh.

On another note, and a rather unexpected one: This soundtrack for this movie isn't half bad! Seriously! (I was rather hoping to hear "Fashion Junior High" though. That song rules!)