Movie
Name/Year: #REALITYHIGH
(2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Length: 99 minutes
Rating: TV-14
Production/Distribution: Court of Five, Netflix, Reality
High Productions
Director: Fernando Lebrija
Writer: Brandon Broussard, Hudson
Obayuwana, Jana Savage
Actors: Nesta Cooper, Keith Powers,
Alicia Sanz, Jake Borelli, Anne Winters, Patrick Davis, Michael Provost, Ryan
Malaty, Kate Walsh, John Michael Higgins, Valarie Rae Miller, Jeffrey D. Sams,
Leah Rose Randall, Marissa Cuevas, Peter Gilroy, Rebekah Graf, Thomas Anthony
Jones, Suzanne Altfeld, Jana Savage, Kid Ink, Yousef Erakat, Chris Broussard,
Tatiana Lett, Olivia Trujillo
Blurb
from IMDb: High-achieving
high-school senior Dani Barnes dreams of getting into UC Davis, the world's top
veterinary school. Then a glamorous new friend draws her into a Southern
California scene that threatens everything she's worked for.
Selina’s
Point of View:
I’ve
seen this movie about ten thousand times. Not this specific movie, but the plot
of it.
You
see hints of it in classics like Sixteen Candles (1984) and Pretty in
Pink (1986). You also see bits of it in iconic films like Mean Girls (2004).
If a movie is going to utilize this kind of plot, the creators need to
understand that they are up against some serious hard-hitters. If #REALITYHIGH
wanted to succeed, it needed to step up.
It
didn’t.
There
were a couple of parts that really hit home and the rest of it was incredibly
basic.
The characters
weren’t nearly as developed as they could have been, and the script left a lot
to be desired. Acting wasn’t the problem. If you took the same exact actors and
just transplanted them into another film with a better script – they would have
been fine.
Little
Leah Rose Randall (Graveyard Spiral, All About the Washingtons, Celebrity Page)
has got a great career ahead of her, I recommend keeping an eye on her. She was
super natural in her part, and if she can do that at her age, I can only assume
she’ll be a regular at award shows when she’s older.
In the end,
teenagers might find #REALITYHIGH watchable, but most adults are just
going to roll their eyes through it.
Rotten
Tomatoes Critic Score – 40%
Rotten
Tomatoes Audience Score – 52%
Metascore – 38/100
Metacritic
User Score – 3.0/10
IMDB
Score – 5.2/10
CinemaScore – None
Trust
the Dice: Selina’s Rating – 2.5/5
Movie
Trailer:
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