Bart Got a Room PG-13
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DVD Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 1 hours, 19 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: July 28, 2009
- Originally Released: 2009
- Label: Starz / Anchor Bay
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | William H. Macy, Jennifer Tilly, Cheryl Hines, Jon Polito, Steven J. Kaplan & Alia Shawkat | |
Directed by | Brian Hecker | |
Screenwriting by | Brian Hecker | |
Composition by | Jamie Lawrence | |
Produced by | Galt Niederhoffer, Celine Rattray, Daniela Taplin Lundberg, Jai Stefan & Tony Shawkat | |
Director of Photography: | Hallvard Braein | |
Executive Production by | Pamela Hirsch, Stephen Benedek, Mario Fallone, Ed Hart, Bruce Lunsford, Reagan Silber, Dina Burke, Michael LeFetra, Randy Simon & Brenda Rhodes |
Entertainment Reviews:
Sweetly neurotic countdown-to-the-prom captures teen life in South Florida.
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Film Journal International
Hecker's film finds a charm that eludes most movies dependent on misplaced prostitutes, bedroom sex noises and male insecurities.
Vancouver Sun
Rating: 3.5/5 --
Most proms don't involve choreographed dances, losers winning prom queen or cameos by famous bands. Bart Got A Room is a much needed believable look at the big night.
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CinemaBlend
Rating: 2.5/5 --
When we get to the prom, the music sounds like nothing you'd ever hear at one. In fact, I'd be surprised if any actual teenagers in the year 2009 found any reference points in Bart Got a Room relevant to their own existence.
Jam! Movies
Rating: 3/4 --
The sweet, dizzy finale makes up for all the predictability before it.
Orlando Sentinel
Rating: 3/4 --
Here's something you don't see every day: a high-school comedy for old poops.
Globe and Mail
Hines and Macy get some laughs, but the film itself feels insufficiently developed.
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Product Description:
Bart got a room--a hotel room--and he’s booked it for senior prom night. Though the title character of BART GOT A ROOM appears only in one brief scene towards the end of the film, it’s his uber-geek specter that hangs over writer-director Brian Hecker’s comedy, a semi-autobiographical ode to teenage angst that aims for AMERICAN PIE-style yucks with a light edge of Philip Roth’s comic neuroticisms. The plot is centered on the hopelessly dateless Danny (Steven Kaplan), a gawky band nerd who must decide between taking his best friend, Camille (Alia Shawkat), to the prom, and attempting to woo the date of his dreams, a pretty blonde cheerleader. Along the way he endures derision and peer pressure from friends, as well as uncomfortably frank advice from his divorced parents, played by Cheryl Hines and William H. Macy (who sports a fantastically bad Jewfro). Set in the geriatric environs of terminally sunny south Florida, Danny’s world offers constant reminders of the road he’s headed down should he not solidify this one life-defining event: Macy’s Ernie grapples with loneliness by seeking women in chatrooms, while Hines’s Beth sees relationships as a shortcut to financial security. Kaplan gives a winning performance as the feckless, desperate Danny, coming across like a hormone-driven mix of Jason Biggs and Woody Allen. And while Hecker’s subtle screenplay doesn’t offer outsized laughs, it's notable for its lack of raunch and snark, a quality that sets this sweet indie comedy apart from the usual teen sex-romp fare.
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- UPC: 013131642995
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