Get Real is a 1998 British drama film directed by Simon Shore, based on the play What's Wrong With Angry? by screenwriter Patrick Wilde. The plot is about gay teenager Steven Carter's coming out to the world. The film was shot in and around Basingstoke, England. Steven Carter is a sixteen-year-old middle-class schoolboy: intelligent and good-looking, but unathletic and introverted. Bullied at school, misunderstood at home, his only confidant is his neighbor and best friend, Linda , and his only sexual outlet is cruising the local park toilet. Things become complicated when Steven is... propositioned there by, as it turns out, John Dixon , the school's head boy and handsome sports star, whom Steven had admired from afar. Both boys are mortified, but Steven is open to John about being gay, and John, intrigued, follows him home. John at first advances on Steven, but then panics and flees. At school, he cuts Steven off. Drunk after a school ball, however, John comes to Steven's house and tells him of a previous homosexual encounter and of his own sexual confusion. The boys kiss, and then spend the weekend together at Steven's house.
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| Release date: | 1998 |
| Directed by: | Simon Shore |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 108 Minutes |
| Producer: | Stephen Taylor |
| Editor: | Barrie Vince |
| Music by: | John Lunn |
| Cinematography: | Alan Almond |
| Screenplay by: | Patrick Wilde |
| Estimated budget: | $1,200,000 |
| Adapted from: | What's Wrong With Angry? |
| Genre: | Comedy |