As You Are
- 2016
- 1h 50m
IMDb RATING
6.5/10
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Set in the early 1990s, the telling and retelling of a friendship between three teenagers, as a police investigation prompts disparate memories.Set in the early 1990s, the telling and retelling of a friendship between three teenagers, as a police investigation prompts disparate memories.Set in the early 1990s, the telling and retelling of a friendship between three teenagers, as a police investigation prompts disparate memories.
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- 2 wins & 12 nominations
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Did you know
- TriviaThe song Mark is making fun of when he says "Jeremy!" is Jeremy by Pearl Jam.
- SoundtracksIntro Theme
Composed by Patrick Higgins (as P. Higgins)
Acoustic and Electric Guitars, Synthesizer, Keyboard, Wurlitzer, Percussion by Patrick Higgins (as P. Higgins)
Drum Set by Miles Joris-Peyrafitte
Featured review
Come as you are, as you were, as I want you to be!
When I saw the trailer, I thought the story they were suggesting was compelling enough to go see it. Then I see the movie and come to realize what the trailer was selling was only the tip of the ice berg on how rich and intelligent this film is. It's rare that a trailer that only shows one layer of the film has a movie that still has many good layers to see, and has a great story that was not fully reveled in the trailer.
First and foremost, it's a coming of age story about Jack, whose an awkward teenager living in a small town in the mid-90s going through that phase of trying to find yourself (Somewhat with the words of Kurt Corbain. hence the title). Then he finds a companion in Mark, someone going through the same thing, making him easy to talk to. This part of the movie is done perfectly. It's the part most, if not all of us can relate to. Then Mark and Jack's relationship gets complicated as they explore a part of it that's beyond friendship.
Adding to the complexity is Sarah, a girl who completes a tribunal of friendship as she likes both boys equally(but does gravitate more towards one over the other), and Mark's dad Tom whose courting Jack's mom, who comes off as a well meaning man whose too hard on Mark and too macho to be of any good to either teenage boy.
And as interesting as this layered story is there is also the layer that goes over gun control. Filmed as a flashback of the characters being integrated by a police officer, the movie does spark an interesting conversation over guns. It literally goes from a innocent scene of a man teaching youths how to properly handle firearms to bringing up an issue of how harmful a gun can be in emotional unstable hands.
As You Are is a great film. It's the type of movie that's real relatable on a lot of levels and it makes you want to talk about it (Very Similar to the band and the type of music the characters listen to in the film). One of my favorite coming of age stories.
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First and foremost, it's a coming of age story about Jack, whose an awkward teenager living in a small town in the mid-90s going through that phase of trying to find yourself (Somewhat with the words of Kurt Corbain. hence the title). Then he finds a companion in Mark, someone going through the same thing, making him easy to talk to. This part of the movie is done perfectly. It's the part most, if not all of us can relate to. Then Mark and Jack's relationship gets complicated as they explore a part of it that's beyond friendship.
Adding to the complexity is Sarah, a girl who completes a tribunal of friendship as she likes both boys equally(but does gravitate more towards one over the other), and Mark's dad Tom whose courting Jack's mom, who comes off as a well meaning man whose too hard on Mark and too macho to be of any good to either teenage boy.
And as interesting as this layered story is there is also the layer that goes over gun control. Filmed as a flashback of the characters being integrated by a police officer, the movie does spark an interesting conversation over guns. It literally goes from a innocent scene of a man teaching youths how to properly handle firearms to bringing up an issue of how harmful a gun can be in emotional unstable hands.
As You Are is a great film. It's the type of movie that's real relatable on a lot of levels and it makes you want to talk about it (Very Similar to the band and the type of music the characters listen to in the film). One of my favorite coming of age stories.
http://cinemagardens.com/
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- Also known as
- As a Friend
- Filming locations
- 648 3rd Avenue, Watervliet, New York, USA(filming location: Mac's Drive-In)
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- Runtime1 hour 50 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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