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Get Real is a 1998 British romantic comedy-drama film directed by Simon Shore, based on the play What's Wrong with Angry? by screenwriter Patrick Wilde. The plot centres the coming of age of a gay teen while growing up in rural Britain during the Cool Britannia era of the late 1990s. The film was shot and set in and around Basingstoke, England. Get Real has since become a cult classic among fans of queer cinema.

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Get Real
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Simon Shore
Screenplay by	Patrick Wilde
Based on	What's Wrong with Angry? by Patrick Wilde
Produced by	Stephen Taylor Patricia Carr Helena Spring Anant Singh
Starring	Ben Silverstone Brad Gorton Charlotte Brittain
Cinematography	Alan Almond
Edited by	Barrie Vince
Music by	John Lunn
Production companies	Distant Horizon Arts Council of England British Screen Productions Graphite Film Production
Distributed by	United International Pictures[1]
Release dates	August 1998 (1998-08) (Edinburgh) 14 May 1999 (1999-05-14) (United Kingdom)
Running time	110 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Budget	$1.2 million
Box office	$1.1 million

Plot

Steven Carter (Ben Silverstone) is a 16-year-old middle-class schoolboy who is intelligent and good-looking, but un-athletic and introverted. Bullied at school and misunderstood at home, his only confidante is his neighbor and best friend, Linda (Charlotte Brittain). Keeping his sexual orientation hidden from everyone else, he cruises in public toilets. He is surprised to find the school jock, John Dixon (Brad Gorton) also cruising, but John denies that he is gay.

At a school dance, Steven gains a friend after he comforts Jessica (Stacy Hart), following her argument with her boyfriend, Kevin (Tim Harris), who is also his bully. When he returns home, John follows him and confides about his own sexual orientation. They start a relationship.

Word around the school spreads about someone being gay, and John fears that Steven has been telling people. In order to maintain his status, John beats up Steven in front of his friends. Steven announces in front of assembly that he is gay, and looks to John for support, who ignores him. John apologizes for beating him up and says he loves him, but as he is too afraid to come out, Steven breaks up with him, wishing him happiness.

Cast

• Ben Silverstone as Steven Carter
• Brad Gorton as John Dixon
• Charlotte Brittain as Linda
• Jacquetta May as Steven's Mother
• David Lumsden as Steven's Father
• Richard Hawley as English Teacher
• Martin Milman as Headmaster
• Stacy Hart as Jessica
• Kate McEnery as Wendy
• Patrick Nielsen as Mark
• Tim Harris as Kevin Grainger
• James D. White as Dave
• James Perkins as Young Steve
• Nicholas Hunter as Young Mark
• Steven Mason as Cruising Man
• Morgan Jones as Linda's Brother
• Ian Brimble as John's Father
• Judy Buxton as John's Mother
• David Elliot as Glen
• Charlotte Hanson as Glen's Wife
• Louise J. Taylor as Christina Lindmann
• Steven Elder as Bob the Driving Instructor
• Leonie Thomas as Aunt at Wedding
• David Paul West as Bridegroom
• Andy Rashleigh as Policeman

Production

Get Real was filmed in and around Basingstoke from the 17th August 1997, before moving on to the Millenium Studios in Borehamwood on the 22nd September. (The scenes shot in the studio were Steven’s bedroom and the inside of the public toilet). The entire movie took six weeks to shoot.[2]

Reception

The film ranked number 34 on Entertainment Weekly's list of the 50 Best High School Movies.[3]

The film was well received by many critics, and subsequently nominated for eight awards, and won six.

In the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Paula Nechak praised the film for allowing the characters to be themselves rather than change to fit in, and praises the treatment of the 'jock' character John as being just as bound by the school popularity game as Steven.[4]

Roger Ebert commented "Certainly this film has deeper values than the mainstream teenage comedies that retail aggressive materialism, soft-core sex and shallow ideas about "popularity."[5] Steven Holden from The New York Times wrote "The movie captures the excruciating paranoia of a situation in which there’s nowhere the lovers can be alone except in each other’s homes on the rare occasions their parents are out."[5]

In the Daily Record, Siobhan Synnot criticised the film as being like a "preachy episode of Grange Hill with cardboard cut-out characters" and also criticised the John character for being unbelievable, describing him as "simply a bland fantasy hunk. It's hard to see how this dim bulb is bright enough for Oxford, because all the smart lines go to his smart-alec boyfriend."[6]

References

External links

• Get Real at IMDb
• Get Real at AllMovie
• Get Real at Box Office Mojo

На других языках

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[de] Get Real – Von Mann zu Mann

Get Real ist ein Film von Regisseur Simon Shore, der seine Premiere auf dem Edinburgh International Film Festival feierte. Das Drehbuch schrieb Patrick Wilde nach seinem Theaterstück What’s Wrong with Angry?.

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- [en] Get Real (film)

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[ru] Будь собой

«Будь собой» (англ. Get Real) — драма британского режиссёра Саймона Шора, снятая по пьесе «What’s Wrong With Angry?» английского драматурга и сценариста Патрика Уайльда.[1] Фильм снимался в Англии в районе Бейзингсток.

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