Get Real is a 1998 British romantic comedy-drama film directed by Simon Shore, based on the play What's Wrong with Angry?

The plot centres around the coming of age of a gay teen while growing up in rural Britain during the Cool Britannia era of the late 1990s.

At a school dance, Steven gains a friend after he comforts Jessica (Stacy Hart), following her argument with her boyfriend, Kevin (Tim Harris), who is also his bully.

[4] During development, director Simon Shore and writer Patrick Wilde, struggled to find a way to make heterosexual audiences understand why Steven was so tortured by staying in the closet.

Along with John Lunn's score, the album features tracks like Republica's "Ready to Go," the Troggs' "Love Is All Around," Cameo's "Word Up!"

The tracks in the film, titled "Respect", "If You Want It to Be Good Girl (Get Yourself a Bad Boy)", "Misunderstood", "Bobby's Girl", performed by Aretha Franklin, Backstreet Boys, Kings of Infinite Space and Charlotte Brittain, respectively, were omitted from the soundtrack due to copyright issues from their record labels.

The website's consensus reads: "An authentic portrayal of homosexuality in high school, Get Real is an engaging dramedy that doesn't sermonize its audience nor trivialize its characters.

[15] Roger Ebert commented, "Certainly this film has deeper values than the mainstream teenage comedies that retail aggressive materialism, soft-core sex and shallow ideas about "popularity.

"[16] Steven Holden from The New York Times wrote "The movie captures the excruciating paranoia of a situation in which there’s nowhere the lovers can be alone except in each other’s homes on the rare occasions their parents are out.