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2008 · fantasy · romance · music · coming-of-age

Were the World Mine

Directed by Tom Gustafson1h 37m2008

ElsewhereIMDb6.86kRT71%

cosy
brisk
gentle
redemptive
tender
intimate

Movie DNA

Cosy, kinetic, gentle fantasy / romance, inventive in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.

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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.

Our read · Were the World Mine (2008) reads as a cosy, kinetic, inventive fantasy · romance · music entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.

Cast

Tanner Cohen Judy McLane Zelda Williams Wendy Robie Jill Larson

Where the cast leads

The People Under the Stairs

The Taking of Deborah Logan

actor path

Girl in the Boxnew register

Wendy Robie

actor path

The People Under the Stairsadjacent

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The shape of Were the World Mine

Tonight, this looks like

What watching it is actually like.

“You want a queer high-school musical fantasy using Shakespeare love magic.”

ends upliftingyou’ll feel glowing aftergrabs you earlygrips by minute 6attention 3/5breezes by

Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around

Skip it tonight — Skip if you dislike musicals or stories about homophobia and teen bullying.

If Were the World Mine is your film

But I'm a Cheerleader (1999)

campy queer teen comedy about identity and acceptance

(unless you want fantasy and songs)

Kinky Boots (2005)

feel-good musical about queer identity and found family

(unless you prefer non-musical drama)

The Birdcage (1996)

warm LGBT family comedy with heart and laughs

(unless you want younger leads and school setting)

DNA · twelve axes

The reading.

Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy

Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic

Intensity · GentleExtreme

Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal

Hope · NihilisticRedemptive

Stakes · IntimateEpic

Humour · NoneBroad

Reality · GroundedFantastical

Density · SparseTwisty

Warmth · ColdTender

Auteur · TransparentSignature

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