Get Your Stuff

Delightful, entertaining film about family love. Hilarious at times and moving and touching at others. The film will keep you engaged from beginning to end.The well to do gay couple who takes two young mischievous boys as foster charges are truly outstanding. As a matter of fact the whole cast is convincing in their respective roles.The film is a beautiful story where everything works out in the end. Maybe not like it is in real life but indeed the way it should be.Din’t miss this fine film!

Interesting Story - although somewhat predictable right from the outset.Dreadful acting! Every line is strained and self-aware with the two main male characters which is a bit disappointing. However the support cast (the kids and the welfare worker et al) do tend to have moments of brilliance. The comparisson makes you wonder why the support cast is so good when the principals are so poor.Initally this makes the film a little hardto get into. Eventually I found myself pulled into the story.Its a nice tale, told many times in many ways.Would I buy it if i had seen it before? No.Would I buy it for a gift? No.Strangely compelling even so!

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.

This is an interesting story about two affluent gay men who get stuck as foster parents to two young teenage boys and how their 'new' family grows around them and draws them in sometimes kicking and screaming, sometimes with laughter. It is a fun experience and well worth the time to watch.

i have seen this movie about 30 times. i watch it almost every day. there is not much of a movie here so i can't explain it. the acting is only average to my way of thinking. it just seems to have an honesty that is very refreshing. the two young boys in this movie seem to be the best actors of the bunch. i cn recommend this movie, not because its so wonderful but because its fun.

I really enjoyed this movie. Happy, sad and many other emotions kept me watching. Some cliche moments, but still a good movie.

This movie touched me deeply. The themes of abandonment, codependence, and social (in)appropriateness of alternative relationships and families are universal even though some of the main characters are homosexual. While this movie is quite funny, it doesn't pull many punches on serious issues. Some characters may at first appear broadly drawn and stereotypical but the clichés melt away to reveal true to life characters, not polite, safe BS.Not everything is for everyone, but if you can deal with the serious as well as the funny, then I recommend it whole-heartedly.

Great movie, acting sucks, but great message and a caring heart.

"Get your stuff" is a story around two wealthy and settled gay men, who are suddenly thrust into the world of parenting. Unfortunately, due to a host of prejudices still applicable to gay couples adopting, they are last on the list for consideration and placement. As fate would have it, two difficult children (not the baby they wanted) are placed under their care by a devoted (albeit trying) social worker. What results is the rapid unfolding of the lives they had become accustomed to.Whilst far too 'Hollywood' for my liking, the story tries to bridge the divide between stereotypes and representing gay-headed households as functional (albeit with many of the same issues and problems experienced by most). Through a clever use of humour, the writer tries to attract what would constitute a sceptical and at times hostile audience. The message is that gay families are ordinary families, capable of love, passion, anger, failure and hope. However, in doing so the story tries too hard. It borders on the saccharine, and many of the scenes are just not believable even to a sympathetic audience.The dynamic between the two leads Phil and Eric is obvious and it is clear they have deep affection and love for each other, the angst is not. Eric (a successful lawyer) flees at pressure, whilst Phil (a psychotherapist) has a near psychotic meltdown displaying the emotional frivolity he so often witnesses in many of his patients. This despite having overcome alcoholism and several shaky starts to their relationship. One would think that the personal and professional experiences of both men, would present them with a significant advantage over the pressure presented by two difficult children. Unfortunately, the relationship suffers as a consequence. Phil despite his professional training fails to see how he has placed himself and his family at risk of disintegration. One would think that an ethical distance between his new children and their alcoholic mother would be obvious to a respected counsellor, instead he invites her into their home and lives. This is when all the red lights start going off, and the film rapidly disintegrates into a fanciful story far removed from how it began. This is perhaps as a result of political correctness and a desire to reflect normative experience within an alternative home. I for one see this as a perverse irony. A gay-headed home is not normative, and neither should it be. This does not mean that gay men and women are incapable of being good parents, its just means that they will be different (and such should be celebrated rather than moulded into societies version of normal).The two young actors are rather good, albeit annoying. At times you want to tell them to go lie out in the road, and you will bring the car out as their behaviour is tantamount to emotional and psychological terrorism. Unlike their adult peers, they have a profound maturity and sense of survival having been through a social system that seems fatally flawed and barely functional. They are indeed a highlight and far more convincing than the other actors within the film. Kimberly Scott (who plays the social worker Gloria) was a horrible disappointment, and one expected far more from such an established actress (Love and Other Drugs, Guess Who, the United States of Leland, and I am Sam).Political correctness and the desire to please (a larger audience) fails this film, which is sad considering the importance of the message.

un bon film

Disons-le: c'est une caricature. Tout le monde: le couple gay, les enfants terribles, leur mère, leur assistante sociale, sans parler des voisins et amis. Maix c'est sympa à regarder et, quelque part, ça sonne vrai. Ceci dit, il y a un ton d'histoire vraie: plus d'un couple gay en Californie a adopté des trash-kids dont personne ne voulait. Chapeau, messieurs.