Alexander IRL

Alexander IRL (2017)

Tommy et EJ sont des frères qui n'ont rien en commun. Tommy est un étudiant hétéro qui veut désespérément être cool et EJ est une ancienne légende du lycée vivant à la maison, dépérissant dans la gestion intermédiaire du laboratoire d'innovation de GE avec le rêve de devenir le prochain Mark Zuckerberg. Lorsque les parents de Tommy et EJ quittent la ville pour leur deuxième lune de miel, les garçons unissent leurs forces pour organiser une fête légendaire au lycée dans l'espoir de faire de Tommy le roi de sa classe et d'EJ le prochain grand développeur d'applications.

Date de sortie
2017-01-11
TMDB
3.4 / 10 (8)
Durée
1 h 22 min
Genres
Comédie
Réalisateur
K. Asher Levin

Distribution

Anecdotes

  • Tourné à : 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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