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Get Over It

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Get Over It (2001)

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Reviews Counted:63

Fresh:28

Rotten:35

Average Rating:5/10

Consensus: As with most teen movies, Get Over It is entirely predictable, and there's not enough plot to sustain the length of the movie. However, it is not without its charms.

Runtime: 86 mins

Genre: Comedies

Synopsis: Director Tommy O'Haver's (BILLY'S HOLLYWOOD SCREEN KISS) sophomore effort is a breezy teen romance that injects a much needed jolt of wit and energy into an overworked genre. Ben Foster (FREAKS AND... Director Tommy O'Haver's (BILLY'S HOLLYWOOD SCREEN KISS) sophomore effort is a breezy teen romance that injects a much needed jolt of wit and energy into an overworked genre. Ben Foster (FREAKS AND GEEKS) stars as Berke, a fairly nondescript basketball player whose romance with the beautiful Allison (Melissa Sagemiller) has made him the happiest man in school as well as the envy of his classmates. Unfortunately, Allison doesn't feel the same way and dumps him in the opening minutes of the film. Determined to win her back, Berke auditions for the high school play, "A Midsummer Night's Rockin' Dream," in which Allison has snagged the lead role. Thwarting his hopes of reconciliation is the guy that Allison just started dating, Striker, a transfer student who heads a semi-famous boy band and sports a laughable European accent. Enlisting the help of his best friend's sister, Kelly (Kirsten Dunst), Berke tries to rehearse for the play and finds his emotions caught between his past with Allison and his burgeoning feelings for Kelly. Sweet and funny (especially during Martin Short's appearances as the play's name-dropping director), GET OVER IT is an excellent teen film bolstered by an exceptional cast. [More]

Starring: Kirsten Dunst, Ben Foster, Melissa Sagemiller, Ed Begley

Starring: Kirsten Dunst, Ben Foster, Melissa Sagemiller, Ed Begley, Carmen Electra, Colin Hanks, Swoosie Kurtz, Sisqo, Martin Short, Shane West, Zoe Saldana, Mila Kunis

Director: Tommy O'Haver

Director: Tommy O'Haver
Screenwriter: R. Lee Fleming
Producer: Richard Hull, Louise Rosner
Studio: Miramax Films

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Reviews for Get Over It

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3/5

Unevenly witty.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jul., 06 2008 08:39 AM

Channel 4 Film

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Wally Hammond

Director O'Haver fails to supply any proper shape or development.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jun., 24 2006 03:20 AM

Time Out

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2/5

Matthew Turner

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Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Oct., 30 2002 08:07 AM

ViewLondon

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3/5

Rich Cline

Quite a bit more intelligent than most films in the genre.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Dec., 10 2001 06:24 PM

Shadows on the Wall

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2/4

Ian Waldron-Mantgani

Features a dog humping a basketball, an electrocution, a cow urinating on the hero and kids drinking punch filled with vomit.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Oct., 30 2001 06:28 PM

UK Critic

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It's the sort of show Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney would have bounced through 60 years ago.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Aug., 10 2001 09:18 AM

Guardian [UK]

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2/5

Michael Thomson

At least Ben Foster communicates the ignorance and insecurity of being a troubled teen.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jun., 11 2001 09:41 AM

BBC

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3/5

Olly Richards

It's completely harmless -- taking that as a pro or a con will be entirely up to the individual viewer.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jun., 11 2001 09:41 AM

Empire Magazine

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3/5

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Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Nov., 20 2008 03:15 AM

Hollywood.com

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Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Oct., 18 2008 03:23 AM

Deseret News, Salt Lake City

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Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Oct., 18 2008 03:23 AM

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

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2/5

Mark Halverson

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Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Aug., 07 2008 03:15 AM

Sacramento News & Review

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Eddie Cockrell

The kind of movie where only some of the characters have last names, this essentially sweet-natured enterprise feels slightly rushed and distracted.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jul., 06 2008 08:37 AM

Variety

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2/4

David Nusair

[Kirsten] Dunst seems to be a fairly decent actress; why she keeps appearing in the same movie over and over is beyond me.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Aug., 01 2003 08:04 AM

Reel Film Reviews

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3/5

Kimberly Jones

This one's going down in my teen hall of fame.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Mar., 10 2003 08:12 AM

Austin Chronicle

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3/5

Harry Guerin

O'Hayer has some way to go before doing a John Hughes (The Breakfast Club, Pretty In Pink) but Get Over It is a headstart.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Mar., 04 2003 07:12 AM

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3.5/5

John R. McEwen

While this film does not do anything extraordinary for its genre, it has its moments, and Dunst and Foster are able to generate reasonable chemistry in their utterly predictable situation.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Feb., 08 2003 08:07 AM

Film Quips Online

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2/4

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Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jan., 30 2003 08:06 AM

USA Today

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Nick Davis

There's something almost perverse about a show that only comes alive as the curtain rises and falls...

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jan., 10 2003 08:08 AM

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3.5/5

Scott Weinberg

Sure, calling any flick "better than Van Wilder" is damning it with faint praise...but did I mention that this one's got Kirsten Dunst in it?

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jul., 15 2002 10:37 PM

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