Get Over It (2001)

Director:

Tommy O'Haver

Writer (WGA):

R. Lee Fleming Jr. (written by)

Release Date:

9 March 2001 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Musical | Romance

Tagline:

Split Happens...

Plot:

When Berke Landers, a popular high school basketball star, gets dumped by his life-long girlfriend, Allison...

Plot Keywords:

Basketball | Singer | Play | Dancer | Love Triangle

Awards:

1 nomination

US TV Schedule:

Fri. Jan. 1

6:00 AM

MTV

Cast

Kirsten Dunst	...	Kelly Woods
Ben Foster	...	Berke Landers
Melissa Sagemiller	...	Allison McAllister
Sisqó	...	Dennis Wallace
Shane West	...	Bentley 'Striker' Scrumfeld
Colin Hanks	...	Felix Woods
Zoe Saldana	...	Maggie (as Zoë Saldana)
Mila Kunis	...	Basin
Swoosie Kurtz	...	Beverly Landers
Ed Begley Jr.	...	Frank Landers
Martin Short	...	Dr. Desmond Forrest Oates
Carmen Electra	...	Mistress Moira
Colleen Fitzpatrick	...	Herself (as Vitamin C)
Coolio	...	Himself
Christopher Jacot	...	Peter Wong

Also Known As:

Get Over It! (USA) (promotional title)
Getting Over Allison (USA) (working title)

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for some crude/sexual humor, teen drinking and language. (edited from R-rated version)

Runtime:

87 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Colour:

Colour

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS

Certification:

USA:R (original rating) | USA:PG-13 (edited for re-rating) (certificate #38063) | Malaysia:18SX (uncut version) | Malaysia:U (cut version) | South Korea:15 | Netherlands:6 | Argentina:13 | Australia:M | Brazil:Livre | Finland:K-11 | Germany:6 | Norway:11 | Portugal:M/12 | Spain:7 | Sweden:7 | UK:12 | Singapore:PG

Filming Locations:

Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

Company:

Ignite Entertainment

Trivia:

Kirsten Dunst makes her singing debut with "Dream of Me", which is also included on the film soundtrack.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: In the bench kissing scene, the editors decided to digitally remove the beer bottle from Kelly's hand. They didn't replace it with anything so it looks like she has a deformed claw for a hand when she walks to the bench and sits down. Later in the scene, the bottle is off to her left where there was no bottle before.

Quotes:

Striker: I don't even know what you're doing here Landers, but if some guy dazzled his way into my ex-girlfriends fancy I'd be doing the same thing... only I'd have a bigger part.
Berke Landers: [nonchalant] You dropped your sword.

Movie Connections:

References Bring It On (2000)

Soundtrack:

Phthalo Blue

pleasant comedy, some laugh-out-loud moments

In the new tradition of taking a classic work and casting it as a high school romance (I guess this tradition began with "Clueless", which is still the best of the bunch), "A Midsummer Night's Dream" gets turned into "Get Over It", but as a nice (if occasionally heavy-handed) twist, the movie revolves around a high school production of that play. The really funny moments are provided by Martin Short as the nut-case head of the theatre department, and Ed Begley, Jr. and Swoosie Kurtz as the nut-case sex-therapist parents of the male lead. (There is also some nice slapstick involving a hapless exchange student and some unusually humiliating accidents involving the male lead.)

The leads, Dunst and Foster, are solid. I've always liked Foster, and he is quite good here, and Dunst has a surprisingly nice voice (unless she was dubbed, but I think that it was her voice). Anyway, it's pleasant, occasionally inventive within the rigid confines of the genre, and has a few big laughs in it.