Get Your Stuff

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Summary: Refreshing gay film about 2 gay guys raising a family.
Review: After reading some of the bad reviews about this movie I was afraid to see this, but I took a gamble and rented it anyway out of curiousity and the 2 hot guys on the cover lol and I have to admit Get Your Stuff is a good movie. Such a refreshing film about gay guys and family. Man are those 2 foster kids a hand full.

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Summary: I don't know what they were watching....
Review: After reading the reviews written by other people, my only question is "What movie were they watching". I will admit that this movie had an interesting concept, but the interesting part stops there. Other than one or two funny lines, the movie runs like a corny after-school special. I did watch the entire movie, hoping it would get better... and it never did... if fact it got worse. If you think you might want to buy this movie, do yourself a favor and rent it first.

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Summary: Ridiculous x 2
Review: Apparently, I can't change some potential viewer's minds about this awful film given the previous "glowing" reviews of it, but I can sure try. This film isn't worth the $2.00 - $4.00 it would cost to rent much less buy. With the exception of the woman who plays Gloria the case worker, the acting is amateurish and cliche, the writing and plot are tediously simplistic and insulting to anyone who's seen more than a couple of gay-themed films, and the humor is sophomoric. Previous reviewers of Get Your Stuff seem to be "all a flutter" that this film breaks new territory in the field of gay foster parenting. Unforunately, much like the current "ground breaker" "Queer as Folk" it fails on even this flimsy compliment. I'd like to suggest that if you find "Leave it to Beaver" or "Father Knows Best" as accurate portrayals of families or americans in the 1950's, than this film is right up your alley. Granted, it is a comedy, but this film tends to take itself too seriously at points to simply be labeled as such. I have a feeling that 5 or 10 years after the subject of gay parenting or gay life in general has been more extensively dealt with, this film will be looked at much like we view the special effects pictures of the 1940's and 50's. They were acceptable for early attempts but generally laughable today.

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Summary: Ridiculous x 2
Review: Apparently, I can't change some potential viewer's minds about this awful film given the previous "glowing" reviews of it, but I can sure try. This film isn't worth the $2.00 - $4.00 it would cost to rent much less buy. With the exception of the woman who plays Gloria the case worker, the acting is amateurish and cliche, the writing and plot are tediously simplistic and insulting to anyone who's seen more than a couple of gay-themed films, and the humor is sophomoric. Previous reviewers of Get Your Stuff seem to be "all a flutter" that this film breaks new territory in the field of gay foster parenting. Unforunately, much like the current "ground breaker" "Queer as Folk" it fails on even this flimsy compliment. I'd like to suggest that if you find "Leave it to Beaver" or "Father Knows Best" as accurate portrayals of families or americans in the 1950's, than this film is right up your alley. Granted, it is a comedy, but this film tends to take itself too seriously at points to simply be labeled as such. I have a feeling that 5 or 10 years after the subject of gay parenting or gay life in general has been more extensively dealt with, this film will be looked at much like we view the special effects pictures of the 1940's and 50's. They were acceptable for early attempts but generally laughable today.

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Summary: Ridiculous!
Review: Do not rent this movie and please do no buy it! You will be sorry. I rented it due to the fact that there are so few "mainstream" gay themed movies and I always like to show my support for the genre. Well, let me tell you, this movie has absolutely NO redeeming qualities. The acting, script and plot are simply awful!! In all actuality, it is an embarrassment to the gay community. If you do decide to buy or rent this title, consider yourself forewarned. You will regret it!

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Summary: Cross over Hit!!!
Review: Finally a film about real issues that just happens to involve a gay couple. A family film that appeals to gay and straight people. Wonderfully, poignant performances, highlighted by two young actors who light up the screen. Max Mitchell and his team have assembled a truly important film for the millenium.

Elaine Hendrix is incredible as the alcoholic mother. The lead couple are great and represent a much needed example of a large majority of gay men in America. This film helps to erase the old stereotype that all gay men are effeminate. The media has focused far too long on negative images of gay men and GET YOUR STUFF shows a couple dealing with issues that any couple would have to deal with gay or straight. They're not perfect but neither are any of us. BRAVO!!

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Summary: GET YOUR STUFF is an awesome movie that will inspire you!
Review: GET YOUR STUFF is one of the better gay movies out there. Phil and Eric are a very attractive gay couple who live in Beverly Hills. They seem to have it all: the looks, the bodies, great jobs, the material things, but they have been longing for something far more meaningful... a baby. They have been waiting to adopt a baby but end up with two foster kids (TJ a 12 year old alcoholic and his younger brother Brian) who have both had a horrible childhood. The couple's social worker keeps telling them they will get their baby, and blackmails them into taking the boys for one night, which turns into many nights, and soon many weeks. Just when things start to get better the childrens mother comes back in to the picture. Phil (who is a family therapist) does everthing he can to keep the kids and yet keep their mother in their life, but while he is busy trying to unite a family his own relationship is falling apart when Eric feels he just can't take being put second any longer. Will Phil be able to save his own relationship and keep the family together? I will not give away the ending, but I will say this is a wonderful gay movie that deals with issues very rarely seen in gay films. Even though the quality of the movie is low budget and these actors are not veteran actors as some reviews have pointed out, the cast did a great job and this is truly a great film that you can watch over and over. I highly encourage anyone who appreciates movies that inspire, make you laugh, make you cry, but most of all that entertain you to check out this great movie called GET YOUR STUFF!

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Summary: Suspend your disbelief and it actually improves (a bit)
Review: Get Your Stuff is one of those films with a nice (read "cute") premise that very nearly sinks itself.

At the beginning I was cringing at almost everything: the casting, the performances, the script, the ham-fisted story-telling; dismayed by all the gay cliches these (supposedly) gay film-makers were using. And no character -- child or adult -- was going to be allowed to react realistically to anything! I was very close to shutting it off.

But by the time it ended I'd altered my opinion somewhat.

The one important thing this film finally did was to defy my bleak expectations and allow the two main characters to start behaving a bit more honestly. Phil holds to his guns and allows the intruding little family to impinge further and further even though his own family (Eric) is threatening to leave. And when Eric does leave, Phil STILL won't capitulate because he really believes that he can salvage the lives of the two kids and their mother. Then when Phil begs Eric to come back ... wonder of wonders for a gay film ... Eric says no! He sticks to his guns too. I was breathing a sigh of relief.

Those little bits of honest behavior saved this for me, but they might not be enough for you. I've seen better and I've seen a lot worse.

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Summary: Truly A Wonderful Gay Movie that stands out
Review: Get Your Stuff is truly a great movie that stands out when comapred to so many of the gay movies out today. A movie about Family instead of just Sex makes this a film worth watching.

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Summary: An entertaining movie w/ timely themes
Review: I saw this movie as a benefit for our local gay/lesbian film festival a year or two ago, and loved it, so I'm happy it's finally available on DVD.
The story deals with a gay couple who want a child, and are conned by a social worker into becoming foster parents to two "at-risk" boys, one of whom turns out to be homophobic. Things get complicated when the boys' real mother (a substance-abuser) decides she wants to come back into the picture.
All things considered, this was a fairly-compelling, often humorous "feel-good" piece of gay cinema, achieved with a cast of mostly unknowns. I think this would be a good addition to anyone's collection.