The Rehearsal

2016

1h 42m

Comedy

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83%

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24 Reviews

First-year drama student Stanley wants to impress his tutor, and when he discovers a sex scandal in his girlfriend's family he's tempted to use it as material for the year-end show.

Jonathan Romney

Film Comment Magazine

The diffuse nature of the narrative, the way in which the film sometimes seems reluctant to focus, makes it something other than the simpler, more direct, more obvious movie that it might have been-a spectacle of the pedagogic urge to destroy.

Jul 11, 2017

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Matt Zoller Seitz

RogerEbert.com

A sensitive, thoughtful, often provocative movie that nevertheless feels like a missed opportunity.

Rated: 2.5/4

Jul 7, 2017

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Sara Stewart

New York Post

Feels like a handful of sketches in need of more connection.

Rated: 2/4

Jul 7, 2017

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Cidnya Silva

But Why Tho? A Geek Community

The Rehearsal is a multi-layered comedy that will certainly make you uncomfortable at times. It will beg the question of how far you are willing to go to understand another person.

Rated: 10/10

Jan 14, 2023

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Vikram Murthi

The Nation

The twist with The Rehearsal is that, despite the preponderance of Fielder’s deadpan jokes, it resembles a psychological drama more than it does a comedy...

Oct 3, 2022

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Ian Barr

Cinema Scope

The film is enlivened by an uncommon depiction of young people behaving and interacting in a believable manner, and confidently builds to a (literal) showstopper ending that's both rousing and hard-won.

Oct 16, 2017

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Alison Maclean

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Kerry Fox

Hannah

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Alice Englert

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Kieran Charnock

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Synopsis

First-year drama student Stanley wants to impress his tutor, and when he discovers a sex scandal in his girlfriend's family he's tempted to use it as material for the year-end show.

Director: Alison Maclean
Producer: Trevor Haysom, Bridget Ikin
Screenwriter: Alison Maclean, Emily Perkins
Genre: Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 1, 2018
Runtime: 1h 42m