Alexander IRL

Alexander IRL (2017)

Phones Off. Party On.

Tommy and EJ are brothers with nothing in common. Tommy is a straight A student who desperately wants to be cool and EJ is a former high school legend living at home, wasting away in middle management in GE's innovation lab with dreams of becoming the next Mark Zuckerberg. When Tommy and EJ's parents leave town for their second honeymoon, the boys join forces to throw a legendary high school party with hopes of making Tommy the king of his class and EJ the next great app developer.

Date of release
2017-01-11
TMDB
3.4 / 10 (8)
Runtime
1h 23m
Genres
Comedy
Director
K. Asher Levin

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Los Angeles

Alexander IRL is a 2017 American teen comedy-drama web film directed by K. Asher Levin and written by Brandon Cohen. It stars Nathan Kress, Brent Rivera, Ryan Newman, Bo Mitchell, and Marcus Scribner. Produced by Rob Fishman, Levin, and Rivera, it follows a socially enclosed trio named Alexander Finn, Darius, and Stuart trying to form their own alter ego by throwing a party and as Alex's brother EJ (Kress) begs him to make an app prototype involving his party. The latter word of the title is an Internet acronym for 'in real life'.

Production

On July 20, 2016, Dave McNary of Variety announced that Kress and Rivera, both being internet personalities, would be starring in an independent teen comedy film titled Alexander IRL, which would start shooting the same week of publication in Los Angeles. K. Asher Levin, the film's director, adapted a screenplay by Brandon Cohen. Rob Fishman, Levin and Rivera become the film's producers.

In order to gain audiences, Levin explained that "The idea was to bring someone like Brent, who has such an incredible reach with people 12-18 and above, to get them to watch one of these movies. Brent allowed us to have a whole captive audience." Levin cited classic teen coming-of-age films, John Hughes' films like American Graffiti (1973), and Dazed and Confused (1993) as influences on the film's narrative, whose theme is "about how young peopl…

In an interview, Rivera and Scribner expressed relatability with the characters they portray. Rivera says he is similar to Alex, an enclosed teenager excessively sticking to his phone, with a narrow social circle. "I think what Alex did [i]s break out of his shell, [and] I get that to a point." However, he stated that the later actions his character does in the film is "not something I would really do." He said that the scene where Alex kisses Lo…

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