Were the World Mine
Overview
Were the World Mine is a 2008 romantic
Romance film
Romance films are love stories that focus on passion, emotion, and the affectionate involvement of the main characters and the journey that their love takes through courtship or marriage. Romance films make the love story or the search for love the main plot focus...

 musical
Musical film
The musical film is a film genre in which songs sung by the characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing. The songs usually advance the plot or develop the film's characters, though in some cases they serve merely as breaks in the storyline, often as elaborate...

 fantasy film
Fantasy film
Fantasy films are films with fantastic themes, usually involving magic, supernatural events, make-believe creatures, or exotic fantasy worlds. The genre is considered to be distinct from science fiction film and horror film, although the genres do overlap...

 directed by Tom Gustafson and written by Gustafson and Cory James Krueckeberg.

Were the World Mine is a story of gay
Gay
Gay is a word that refers to a homosexual person, especially a homosexual male. For homosexual women the specific term is "lesbian"....

 empowerment, inspired by Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon"...

’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Were the World Mine stars Tanner Cohen
Tanner Cohen
-Career:In 2006, Cohen appeared as Tad Becker in 5 episodes of the American soap opera As The World Turns. He appeared along side Uma Thurman and Evan Rachel Wood in the 2007 thriller The Life Before Her Eyes...

, Wendy Robie
Wendy Robie
Wendy Robie is an American actress known for playing eccentric, mentally disturbed characters in television and on film. She is especially known for her role as Nadine Hurley in David Lynch's Twin Peaks and as Mommy in Wes Craven's The People Under the Stairs...

, Judy McLane, Jill Larson
Jill Larson
Jill Larson is an American dramatic actress. She is most widely known for her portrayal of Opal Cortlandt on the popular daytime drama, All My Children, a role she has played for 22 years, garnering her 2 Emmy nominations...

, Zelda Williams
Zelda Williams
Zelda Rae Williams is an American actress and the daughter of actor and comedian Robin Williams and Marsha Garces. She was named after Princess Zelda of The Legend of Zelda series of video games. Her first big role was that of Melissa Loggia, the main character's teenage love interest in the 2004...

, Nathaniel David Becker
Nathaniel David Becker
Nathaniel David Becker is an American actor best known for his role as Jonathon in the movie Were the World Mine.-Life:Raised in Yankton, South Dakota, Becker was born in Iowa City, Iowa. His parents lived in smaller North Liberty, later in Pella, Iowa. Born on September 11, he is a Virgo and the...

, and Ricky Goldman.
Timothy (Tanner Cohen
Tanner Cohen
-Career:In 2006, Cohen appeared as Tad Becker in 5 episodes of the American soap opera As The World Turns. He appeared along side Uma Thurman and Evan Rachel Wood in the 2007 thriller The Life Before Her Eyes...

) is an openly gay student at a private boy's school.
Quotations

How dare you say 'penis' to a dead person.

[On finding her soul inside Roger Cobb's body] I don't believe this. I can't even die right.

You are rude, crude, and thoroughly unattractive.

[To his girlfriend] You bought me a gravestone for my thirty-eighth birthday?!

[To his dog] Don't look at me like that. I'm not going in there as a messenger boy; I'm a trained legal advisor. No more being looked down on by people who think they're better than I am because they're rich. From now on, I'm gonna be respected... by people who think they're better than I am because they're rich.

Is everyone here bananas?

[After Edwina has called him a 'peasant'] Listen, lady. Just because my grandfather didn't rape the environment and exploit the workers doesn't make me a peasant. And it's not that he didn't want to rape the environment and exploit the workers; I'm sure he did. It's just that as a barber, he didn't have that much opportunity.

[To Edwina] You're like an energy vampire. You suck the life out of people and take the fun out of being a lawyer.

The comedy that proves that one's a crowd.

 
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