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Were the World Mine (2008) -- 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...
Were the World Mine (2008) -- Armed with a magical love-potion and empowered by dazzling musical fantasies, a struggling teen turns his narrow-minded town gay and captures the rugby jock of his dreams, making them walk a heartbreaking mile in his musical shoes.
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Director:
Writers:
Tom Gustafson (screenplay) &
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Release Date:
14 May 2009 (Germany) more
Tagline:
A musical dream come true.
Plot:
If you had a love-potion, who would you make fall madly in love with you? Timothy, prone to escaping... more | full synopsis
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17 wins more
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(13 articles)
Ask the Flying Monkey! (January 25, 2010)
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Best Of 2009: Gay Films on DVD
 (From GreenCine Daily. 4 January 2010, 1:40 PM, PST)

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Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Tanner Cohen ... Timothy
Wendy Robie ... Ms. Tebbit
Judy McLane ... Donna

Zelda Williams ... Frankie
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
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Also Known As:
Fairies: A Musical Dream Come True (USA) (working title)
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95 min
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Continuity: In the scene from All Things Shall Be Peace, as the characters and Ms. Tebbit are under the tree, Cole (in the gray shirt) is standing behind Ms. Tebbit and Donna. In the next shot, Cole is kneeling in front of them. In the next shot Cole is standing behind them again. more
Quotes:
Donna: My son? He's a fairy.
Woman: A fairy?
Donna: Yeah, in a play.
Woman: Ohh...
[laughing]
Donna: Well, in real life too.
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Movie Connections:
Remake of Fairies (2003) more
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In the movie, when the love potion is used, does it actually turn you into a homosexual, or was it because the first person that was seen was of the same gender?
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3 out of 3 people found the following review useful.
Gentle lover...., 19 September 2009
9/10
Author: mg501 from United States

Usually I resent anything that stereotypes homosexuals. I resent it even more when gays stereotype gays. As gay as this movie definitely is (fairies... guys wearing wings... rugby players doing pirouettes), I am -surprisingly enough- completely enamored with it. I am glad that I watched it, then watched it again, and... watched it again.

There is something about this movie that moves past being just a story about fairies - literal and otherwise. Cohen has a strong and beautiful voice. Both he and Becker play their characters way beyond stereotypes. It didn't hurt to have them both be such total hot-ties, either.

It's really too bad that so many people will be put-off by anything to do with same sex relationships. (BTW: this movie is about more than just that.) They are missing a film that inspires the audience to have the courage to be oneself and the courage to let go of what you love, because of that love, at the risk of losing it. -- 12/08/09 Before Puck (Cohen) sings "Sleep Sound" there is a brief moment when the viewer sees Cole's mother obviously disgruntled by her son's apparent homosexuality. She breaks into a gargantuan smile when Cole return to his heterosexual self. Many gays and lesbians live their entire life knowing that, when all is said and done, our parent's continue to feel that we have failed them by not (at least) pretending to be heterosexuals. When it comes to sexuality, it is not uncommon to find our parent's and our friends' love to be very conditional.

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