The Art of Getting By PG-13
The toughest lesson is love.
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DVD Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 1 hours, 23 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: November 29, 2011
- Originally Released: 2011
- Label: Searchlight
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Emma Roberts & Freddie Highmore | |
Performer: | Blair Underwood, Rita Wilson, Alicia Silverstone, Michael Angarano, Elizabeth Reaser & Sam Robards | |
Directed by | Gavin Wiesen | |
Screenwriting by | Gavin Wiesen | |
Composition by | Alec Puro | |
Director of Photography: | M. David Mullen |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: D --
A self-important, stock indie that finds a way to hit every superficial cliche possible and still has the audacity to flaunt itself as a thoughtful look at teenage romance.
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San Antonio Current
Rating: C- --
The Art of Getting By wants to be sweet and insightful, but ends up scattered and slight.
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Detroit News
Rating: 2/5 --
Not funny, quirky, or particularly insightful.
Little White Lies
Rating: 3/5 --
The film takes elements of the genre and makes them its own and, more importantly, it does it well.
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CineVue
Rating: 1/5 --
You'll feel like swatting Freddie Highmore with a rolled-up newspaper the size of a railway carriage while watching this supremely annoying film, a teen drama populated by vulnerable indie moppets.
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Guardian
Pathetic. Nothing but an over-privileged filmmaker mining his prep school diaries for narcissistic roleplay.
Philadelphia Weekly
Rating: 7/10 --
Excellent performances by Freddie Highmore and Emma Roberts make this one an enjoyable watch.
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Product Description:
A high school slacker forges an unlikely bond with the most popular girl in his class, and becomes an apprentice to an older artist after learning that his disdain for homework may cost him his diploma. George (Freddie Highmore) isn't what you'd call a people person, yet he's somehow managed to make it through high school with a minimal amount of effort. Meanwhile, Sally (Emma Roberts) is a natural-born beauty whose popularity helps to hide the fact that she's positively miserable at home. Brought together by their turbulent personal lives, Sally and George quickly discover that despite appearances, they actually have quite a bit in common. It all threatens to fall apart, though, when George learns that he may not be eligible for graduation. Desperate to escape high school by any means necessary, George attempts to learn some measure of self-discipline by working under Dustin, a successful 25-year-old artist who sees potential in the young misfit. Now, just as George begins to see the future as something to embrace rather than something to dread, his lazy past threatens to hinder his forward momentum.