Were the World Mine
a musical dream come true
2008 | 97m | English
Popularity: 1 (history)
| Director: | Tom Gustafson |
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| Writer: | Tom Gustafson, Cory Krueckeberg |
| Staring: |
| 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. | |
| Release Date: | Jun 24, 2008 |
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| Director: | Tom Gustafson |
| Writer: | Tom Gustafson, Cory Krueckeberg |
| Genres: | Fantasy, Romance |
| Keywords | homophobia, musical, high school, bullying, based on play or musical, school play, lgbt, lgbt teen, love potion, gay theme, based on short |
| Production Companies | Speak Productions |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $120,000
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Feb 01, 2025 Entered: Apr 13, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| David Darlow | Dr. Lawrence Bellinger |
| Parker Croft | Cooper |
| Brad Bukauskas | Cole |
| Reid Dawson | Russ |
| Alexander Aguilar | Taylor |
| Yoni Solomon | Bradley |
| Colleen Skemp | Becky |
| Ken Gasch | Dancer (as Kenneth Gasch) |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Mickie Paskal | Casting |
| Jennifer Rudnicke | Casting |
| Tom Gustafson | Writer, Director |
| Cory Krueckeberg | Writer, Music Arranger, Production Designer |
| Elizabeth Powell Wislar | Costume Designer |
| Jessica Fogle | Original Music Composer |
| Todd Underwood | Choreographer |
| Jennifer Lilly | Editor |
| Evelyn Marquina | Script Supervisor |
| Kira Kelly | Director of Photography |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Tom Gustafson | Producer |
| Cory Krueckeberg | Producer |
| Reid Williams | Executive Producer |
| Jon Sechrist | Executive Producer |
| Richard Zanetti | Executive Producer |
| Gill Holland | Executive Producer |
| Peter Sterling | Producer |
| Reid Williams | Executive Producer |
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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.