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A 2001 teen comedy starring [[Ben Foster]] and [[Kirsten Dunst]]. Like ''[[Ten Things I Hate About You]]'' and ''[[
Berke Landers has been dating his high school sweetheart Allison for years-- until the day she dumps him for the vaguely-British ex-boy band member Striker. Allison and Striker sign up for the upcoming school play, a musical adaptation of ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'', and in an attempt to win back his beloved, Berke does too. Unlike Allison and Striker, Berke has no acting, singing, or dancing talent, and so enlists the help of his best-friend's little sister, Kelly, to teach him the ways of drama. As his rivalry with Striker grows, Berke finds himself growing closer to Kelly... and to add to his troubles, one of the leads breaks his leg, landing Berke with a leading role!
Meanwhile, Berke and his friends find themselves in many ''[[
While hardly the best of the teen-Shakespeare movies of the 2000s, ''Get Over It'' has an odd charm to it, due in part to its wacky and sometimes surreal humour (rather fitting, considering the source material). Arguably the best part is "A Midsummer Night's Rockin' Eve", the rock musical version of ''AMSND'' they dreamt up for the movie.
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* [[Convenient Slow Dance]]: Subverted when the generic moderate-tempo background music gets turned up to high-tempo music the second a character asks another to dance.
* [[Fake Brit]]: Baton Rouge native Shane West as Striker.
* [[Follow the Leader]]: It's clear they were channeling ''[[
* [[Duet Bonding]]: The way Berke and Kelly get close
* [[Fan Service]]: Carmen Electra as a dominatrix and in a Gold Bikini in the credits.
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