Were the World Mine

"a musical dream come true"

2008 1h 37m EN

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6.3

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★6.3TMDB · 100

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Synopsis

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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.

“a musical dream come true”

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Cast

Tanner Cohen
Timothy
Judy McLane
Donna
Zelda Williams
Frankie
Wendy Robie
Mrs. Tebbit
Jill Larson
Nora Bellinger
Ricky Goldman
Max
Nathaniel David Becker
Jonathon
Christian Stolte
Coach Driskill

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Tom Gustafson
Writers: Tom Gustafson, Cory Krueckeberg
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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ERA

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Released 18 years ago.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Tom Gustafson, shot by Kira Kelly. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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3 / 7

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Jessica Fogle. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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4 / 7

DIRECTOR

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Editor Jennifer Lilly shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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5 / 7

CAST

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Tanner Cohen and Judy McLane and Zelda Williams carry the top of the cast.

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6 / 7

FACT

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Marketing tagline: "a musical dream come true".

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7 / 7

WILD

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IMDB entry: tt0476991 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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The take

Tom Gustafson directs. Kira Kelly behind the camera. Jessica Fogle scores. Jennifer Lilly cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

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1Released 18 years ago.
2Directed by Tom Gustafson, shot by Kira Kelly. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
3Original score by Jessica Fogle. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
4Editor Jennifer Lilly shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
5Tanner Cohen and Judy McLane and Zelda Williams carry the top of the cast.
6Marketing tagline: "a musical dream come true".
7IMDB entry: tt0476991 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
8Classified under 12 themes, including "high school", "homophobia", "musical", "bullying".

The technical file

Cinematography: Kira Kelly
Original score: Jessica Fogle
Editing: Jennifer Lilly
Runtime: 97 min · 1h 37m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Box office: $120,000
Original language: EN
IMDB: Were the World Mine (2008)

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CinemaSerf2022-03-28
★ 7/10
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.
kinrich302026-09-08
★ 10/10
This was actually a pretty good movie. A teenager gets a magic flower that turns people gay for a day and then we see what happens. A unique story and had some humor too. The only thing that I think would have been better is if we saw more of how people were affected after the spell wore off. We saw a little of that, but not much before the movie ended.