Were the World Mine

Unrated

6/24/20081h 37m

Theatrical Release (US)

~ a musical dream come true ~

Overview:

If you had a love-potion, who would you make fall madly in love with you? Timothy, prone to escaping his dismal high school reality through dazzling musical daydreams, gets to answer that question in a very real way. After his eccentric teacher casts him as Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream, he stumbles upon a recipe hidden within the script to create the play's magical, purple love-pansy.

Director:

Tom Gustafson

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$0.00

Revenue:

$120,000.00

Key words:

high school
homophobia
musical
bullying
based on play or musical
school play
lgbt
lgbt teen
love potion
gay theme
based on short film

Cast

Tanner Cohen

~ as ~

Timothy

Judy McLane

~ as ~

Donna

Zelda Williams

~ as ~

Frankie

Wendy Robie

~ as ~

Mrs. Tebbit

Jill Larson

~ as ~

Nora Bellinger

Ricky Goldman

~ as ~

Max

Nathaniel David Becker

~ as ~

Jonathon

Christian Stolte

~ as ~

Coach Driskill

David Darlow

~ as ~

Dr. Lawrence Bellinger

Parker Croft

~ as ~

Cooper

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Reviews (1)

CinemaSerf
Written 3 year(s) ago
7
Tanner Cohen reminded me of Adam Lambert (whom I'd love to see actually play "Puck") in this over-the-top but enjoyable musical spin on Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream". I'll admit at the start I sighed and thought - no, not another gay teen angst movie, but no - he is a put-upon gay lad at school who happens upon a magical spell that makes every other boy at the school fall in love (or lust, at any rate) with other boys - and he gets one for himself, of course. Soon, just about the entire town are captured in his web of mischief. Anyone who has read the play will appreciate that "Puck" is one of the best comic characters in English literature, and Cohen does a better than decent job at marrying the frustrations and naughtiness of the fairy into a 21st century environment. Wendy Robie is also good as the drama teacher with a little extra bit of magic to her. It suffers a little from being a smidge too theatrical without the lighting budget to support it; and the singing isn't magnificent - but all in all, a courageous effort from Tom Gustafson to tackle quite a tough project. Well worth a watch - but to get the best, it needs concentration.