Were the World Mine
Showing at 08:45PM on Monday, March 31, 2008
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WERE THE WORLD MINE
USA, 2008, 95 MIN
DIRECTED BY TOM GUSTAFSON
World Premiere
If you had a love potion, would you share it with--or inflict it on--the rest of the world? That’s what Timothy, an openly gay teenager at an all-boys prep school, decides to do in this musical comedy of errors, but it’s not quite as altruistic as it sounds. When Timothy is cast as Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream by a strangely magical drama teacher, he brews up a batch of the play’s famous love potion. The problem, as he discovers when he accidentally uses it, is that it actually works. It’s not a problem for long. Timothy uses the love spell to net the rugby jock of his dreams and goes on to use it in other ways, some unintended, but still. . . he’s taken a lot of flack for his sexuality in his small town. What if they have to walk a mile in his shoes? The course of true love never did run smooth, but in this Shakespeare-inspired musical comedy based on director Tom Gustafson’s award-winning short film, Fairies, at least it comes to a sweetly, harmonious resolve.
