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Get Real

  • 19981998
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  • 1h 48m
IMDb RATING
7.5/10
14K
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Get Real (1998)
A tenderly romantic coming-of-age story as two boys in a British school fall in love.
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A tenderly romantic coming-of-age story as two boys in a British school fall in love.A tenderly romantic coming-of-age story as two boys in a British school fall in love.A tenderly romantic coming-of-age story as two boys in a British school fall in love.
IMDb RATING
7.5/10
14K
YOUR RATING
  • Director
    • Simon Shore
  • Writer
    • Patrick Wilde(play "What's Wrong with Angry")
  • Stars
    • Ben Silverstone
    • Brad Gorton
    • Charlotte Brittain
  • Director
    • Simon Shore
  • Writer
    • Patrick Wilde(play "What's Wrong with Angry")
  • Stars
    • Ben Silverstone
    • Brad Gorton
    • Charlotte Brittain
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 155User reviews
    • 28Critic reviews
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    • Awards
      • 6 wins & 3 nominations

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    Brad Gorton stars as John
    John & Steven
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    Director Simon Shore on the set
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    Ben Silverstone
    Ben Silverstone
    • Steven Carter
    Brad Gorton
    Brad Gorton
    • John Dixon
    Charlotte Brittain
    Charlotte Brittain
    • Linda
    Stacy Hart
    Stacy Hart
    • Jessica
    • (as Stacy A. Hart)
    Kate McEnery
    Kate McEnery
    • Wendy
    Patrick Nielsen
    • Mark
    Tim Harris
    • Kevin
    James D. White
    • Dave
    James Perkins
    • Young Steve
    Nicholas Hunter
    • Young Mark
    Jacquetta May
    • Steven's Mother
    David Lumsden
    • Steven's Father
    David Elliot
    • Glen
    Morgan Jones
    • Linda's Brother
    Richard Hawley
    • English Teacher
    Steven Mason
    • Cruising Man
    Charlotte Hanson
    • Glen's Wife
    Alina Hazeldine
    • Crying Baby
    • Director
      • Simon Shore
    • Writer
      • Patrick Wilde(play "What's Wrong with Angry") (screenplay)
    • All cast & crew
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    Storyline

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    Did you know

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    • Goofs
      In the scene in the school newspaper office, when Mark discovers the anonymous article "Get Real", he reads aloud from the article: "The assumption that your children are heterosexual may be causing them pain." The close-up on the computer screen shows that sentence as: "The assumption that your children are heterosexual may be destroying their lives."
    • Quotes

      John Dixon: Fag?

      Steven Carter: W-what?

      John Dixon: I mean, uh...

      [holds out cigarette]

      Steven Carter: Oh. Um. Sure.

    • Connections
      Featured in Siskel & Ebert: Entrapment/Three Seasons/The Winslow Boy/Idle Hands/Get Real (1999)
    • Soundtracks
      Staying Out For The Summer
      Written by Nigel Clark, Andy Miller (as Andrew Miller) and Mathew Priest (as Matthew Priest)

      Performed by Dodgy

      A&M Records Ltd., London

    User reviews155

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    8/10
    Ben Silverstone rules!
    If "Get Real" chronicles anything, it is that messed-up jumble of a time that gay men have as teenagers, trying to be true to themselves without giving too much offense to those who abhor them. The mixed-up measures they take to express themselves and give expression to their feelings of desire and adolescent lust, suppressed by community morality and repressed by personal fear and self-hatred, unfolds over the London suburb of Basinbroke where a stick figure of a 16-year-old--Steven Carter--sits in or outside a public bathroom, trying to make contact with someone. He finds it unexpectedly with the big man on the high-school campus who garners immeasurable pleasure from their private meetings, but cannot bear the thought of being outed. The story passes through a grist mill of situations that leave the viewer with the simplistic notion that everything will be fine, if you just have the courage to be yourself with others. If it were that easy, I'm sure Brandon Teena would still be alive today.

    Adapted from Patrick Wilde's play "What's wrong with being angry," "Get Real" sends a manifesto to parents and teachers about the supposed pressures they may be putting on their children, gay or otherwise. If you're willing to accept it on this level, the movie functions as an emotional release for all those pent-up gay teenagers who couldn't vent their anger and frustrations at the forces that impose on their burgeoning dreams. But if you try to take it any deeper, then you'd have to consider the internal struggles of John Dixon, the object of Steven's desire, because that is one of the few places in this movie where something is at stake. Johnny (as Steven likes to call him) travels a thornier road, and although Brad Gorton doesn't quite seem up to the challenge, his self-conscious jock does not seem so much a coward in the end as someone saddled with all the trappings of his gentrified upbringing who doesn't want to let go of them. Johnny Boy's smart, but like all teenagers, he's thwarted by desires that defy his good sense.

    And that is a shame, because if there ever was reason to give up everything for love, Ben Silverstone would be it. He is the real find in this picture. He's the most elegantly constructed scarecrow to touch the silver screen (Seeing him, Conrad Veidt and "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" come to mind.), and it's amazing what calm he brings to the center of this movie. Unlike newcomer Gorton, the camera loves Silverstone, and it takes him in as if he were born to be in front of it. If that weren't enough, this young actor (He is about the same age that Steve should be.) has a voice that rivals Jeremy Irons for expressiveness and majesty. Imagine him as Hamlet or Edward II or in a remake of "Brideshead Revisited" and that sultry sound pouring forth in velvety plenitude. Why, it's enough to make you stand up and salute the Queen Mother.

    With Stacy Hart as the iridescent Jessica whose dance with Steve is probably the sexiest scene in the entire movie.
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    • Release date
      • April 30, 1999 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United Kingdom
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Будь собой
    • Filming locations
      • Basingstoke, Hampshire, England, UK(War Memorial Park. The Vyne School. Festival Place. Top of Town. Down Grange. Odeon Cinema)
    • Production companies
      • Arts Council of England
      • British Screen Productions
      • Distant Horizon
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    Box office

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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $1,152,979
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $54,254
      • May 2, 1999
    • Gross worldwide
      • $1,176,597
    See detailed box office info on IMDbPro

    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 48 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby SR
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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