Were the World Mine (2008)

06/24/2008Fantasy, Romance1h 37m
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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.

Top Billed Cast

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    Tanner Cohen

    Timothy

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    Judy McLane

    Donna

  3. Cast 1

    Zelda Williams

    Frankie

  4. Cast 1

    Wendy Robie

    Mrs. Tebbit

  5. Cast 1

    Jill Larson

    Nora Bellinger

  6. Ricky Goldman

    Max

  7. Nathaniel David Becker

    Jonathon

  8. Cast 1

    Christian Stolte

    Coach Driskill

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    David Darlow

    Dr. Lawrence Bellinger

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 "Puc...