Get Over It (2001)

User Rating:

5.5/10   

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 | Dancer | Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream | Singer | Play

Awards:

1 nomination

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:

Peter Wong: [crying out in pain] Forrest-Oates is my special buddy.

Movie Connections:

References Bring It On (2000)

Soundtrack:

The Shining

Yes, it is a teen flick.

Out of the many, many teen flicks out there today, I find this one my favorite of them all. It stands above the rest mainly because it does not take itself seriously. In the first, oh, five minutes of the film you have: 1) A guy being sucked into a vortex when his girlfriend breaks up with him and 2) A full-on song and dance number. Yes, this movie is stupid, and it knows it.

I find the first, oh two-thirds of the movie to be amusing, but nothing really special. The last third of the movie is where the film really picks up pace and made me fall in love with it. The school play is surprisingly true to real life (at least how theatre was at my school) and the song/dance numbers are priceless. I often find myself fast-forwarding to these scenes when I don't have the time to watch the whole thing.

Good movie for when you want to shut off your brain and just enjoy mindless entertainment.