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- 2012
- PG-13
- Samuel Goldwyn Films
- 1 h 35 m
- 2012
- PG-13
- Samuel Goldwyn Films
- 1 h 35 m
Summary The First Time is a modern look at the angst, anticipation and hopefulness of young love...Dave is a high school senior who spends most of his time pining away over a girl he can't have. Aubrey, a junior with artistic aspiration, has a hot boyfriend who doesn't quite understand her or seem to care. Dave and Aubrey meet one night at a p...
Written By: Jonathan Kasdan
- 2012
- PG-13
- Samuel Goldwyn Films
- 1 h 35 m
- 2012
- PG-13
- Samuel Goldwyn Films
- 1 h 35 m
The First Time
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6.8
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Summary The First Time is a modern look at the angst, anticipation and hopefulness of young love...Dave is a high school senior who spends most of his time pining away over a girl he can't have. Aubrey, a junior with artistic aspiration, has a hot boyfriend who doesn't quite understand her or seem to care. Dave and Aubrey meet one night at a p...
Written By: Jonathan Kasdan
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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30% Positive
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
50% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
20% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
55
30% Positive
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
50% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
20% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
In the first 15 minutes, viewers may be rolling their eyes at these kids; by the end, they might be eager to re-watch that opening scene, to get to know them all over again.
Sure, you've seen this story before, but this version has a freshness nonetheless.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 48 User Ratings
6.8
56% Positive
27 Ratings
27 Ratings
31% Mixed
15 Ratings
15 Ratings
13% Negative
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 48 User Ratings
6.8
56% Positive
27 Ratings
27 Ratings
31% Mixed
15 Ratings
15 Ratings
13% Negative
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
Best film in this genre I've seen for a long time ..Sexy and Funny
The cast were excellent in their roles in fact I have also watched the lead character in Teen Wolf and this is quite a departure from the role he plays in that
Try not to miss **** will like it,
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I thought it was a decent romantic movie when i first watched it, but for some reason wanted to watch it again, and again over the next 2 weeks... around the 4th or 5th time I finally realized it was because there is a lot of parallels to how my 2nd long term relationship started.
oddly the girl acts like the girl i went out with for 7 months, and looks like the other girl that i decided not to go out with.
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There is much to like here, a sense of nuance and nonjudgmental emotional openness, yet Kasdan's teenage miniaturism never quite blooms. The First Time is respectfully delicate, a little too polite.
An inoffensive but bland ode to the talky high school movies of John Hughes and Cameron Crowe.
Feels slight and pretty ordinary by the end, with no edge or compelling insights, just a reasonable feel for teen attitudes and banter.
Sex and love are both novel experiences for two high schoolers in this talky affair that suggests a hybrid of Before Sunset and Some Kind of Wonderful.
Let your mind wander during this painfully generic teen-sex dramedy (trust us, it will), and there might be emotions worse than frustration in store.
I really enjoyed this movie, even though it's more suited to an audience far younger than I. The main reason I watched this was because of the great cast. The talented and sexy Britt Robertson and Molly C Quinn. Then there is a young Aussie actor of considerable talent, James Frecheville who starred in the amazing 'Animal Kingdom'. Being a red blooded male I used to watch 'The Secret Circle' (hey, what's wrong with that?? lol) so Britt was plenty enough reason to see this. I actually recognised a lot of the actors in this well written movie. Another reason to see this was the fact that writer/director Jon Kasdan's previous film was the wonderful 'The Land Of Woman' so I was keen to see if he was truly following in his very famous director fathers footsteps. Father, Lawrence is behind some of the biggest films in Hollywood, such as, 'Return of the Jedi', 'Wyatt Earp' and 'Dreamcatcher'. He has his fathers touch.
The film is a sort of mild mannered affair about a boy (Dylan O'Brian) and a girl (Britt) who meet at the outskirts of a party, run from the cops and end up in her bedroom. They fall asleep and wake up to parents shouting for Aubrey to get out of bed. Dave jumps out the window and forgets to get her number. He gets given all sorts of silly advice from his friends on how to he should approach her the next time. I'm not going to get in to the whole thing but it follows from that.
The bottom line is, this was funny, well acted (very well acted in fact), great production for a smaller budget movie and the writing was actually quite sublime, not in that young people won't get it but enough to keep older people interested. I also liked the characters which can make or break a film, imo.
Highly Recommended
Score: 7.1/10
N∆V ****
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A shy senior and a down - to - earth junior fall in love over one weekend. (6)
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Brit Robertson and Dylan O'Brien make for two pretty great leads and it makes sense that they started dating during the shooting of The First Time. Their chemistry is outstanding and obviously the moments where the two are together are the highlights of the film. The fact that these characters are high school kids are both its rise and its downfall. The young characters make this more of a teen movie than anything but their innocence is also what makes the film unique. These characters go through some problems that a lot of young people have when falling in love for the first time.. There are so many cute moments throughout this movie. It's unfortunately pretty clichéd though, but it is still plain to see that both Brit Robertson and Dylan O'Brien were bound to become stars.
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