GET OUT
FILM FACT FILE
INSTITUTIONAL CONTEXT
Production Company - Blumhouse Productions, QC Entertainment, Monkeypaw Productions
Distributor - Universal Pictures
Director - Jordan Peele
Cinematographer - Toby Oliver
Composer - Michael Abels
Editor - Gregory Plotkin
Stars: Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams, Catherine Keener, Bradley Whitford, Caleb Laundry Jones, Marcus Henderson, Betty Gabriel, Lakeith Stanfield, Stephen Root, LilRel Howery, Ashley LeConte Campbell, John Wilmot, Caren L. Larkey, Julie Ann Doan, Rutherford Cravens
Other notable personnel -
Notable related films -
Production notes -
Budget - $4.5 million.
The film was a box office success, grossing $254 million worldwide.
Budget - $4.5 million.
The film was a box office success, grossing $254 million worldwide.
Opening Weekend USA:
$33,377,060, 26 February 2017, Wide ReleaseGross USA:
$175,484,140Cumulative Worldwide Gross:
$252,434,250
TRIVIA - Second collaboration between Bradley Whitford and Catherine Keener. They previously worked together in An American Crime (2007)
AUDIENCE EXPETATION
WHAT KNOWLEDGE DO SPECTATORS BRING TO THE FILM?
Is the film an adaptation? - Drawing on a horror tradition that owes a great deal to the novelist Ira Levin. The more psychological thriller shows the style of Levin but it is not an adaptation.
A star vehicle? -
Is the director well-known? Does he/she have a particular style or work with particular actors? - Jordan Peele is an American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and director. He initially became known for starring in the Comedy Central sketch series Key & Peele and for his five seasons as a cast member on Mad TV. However, Get Out is the first and only film where Peele has directed, he has also written Get Out and 2016's Keanu.
REVIEWS
How has the film been received? - With 233,177 reviews on imdb it shows that popularity of viewers, it being 7.7 out of 10 which is a success in terms of imdb reviews.
What has been written about the film? -
"What makes Get Outmore than just a slam-bang scarefest is that, in its own darkly satiric way, it is also a movie about racial paranoia that captures the zeitgeist in ways that many more "prestigious" movies don't." - TIME magazine.
"I was totally blown away by "Get Out". This is one of the best turns by an actor behind the camera I have ever seen (Jordan Peele). Probably the timely social commentary is going to loom heavily when discussing the film; however this shouldn't conceal the fact that this is a masterclass cinematic work that has been thought out to the very last detail; it knows what it wants to say and how to say it, balancing wildly contrasting tones and defeating potential clichés with stylistic bravura. Of course everything stems from a rock solid script, where the plot points are cunningly engineered, and then fleshed out in a disciplined and take no prisoners kind of way." - imdb review
HISTORICAL/POLITICAL CONTEXT
It had been important for Peele to address current racial issues within America, by making this film he could easily reflect the political mood of this time that we live in now. It is set in America with it being in modern times. This is what Peele has said about it. "I developed it over the last eight years, really. The original story genesis was, I wanted to make a horror movie, and I first zoned in on this idea that I wanted to make a movie about the social fear and anxiety we all have about being the outsider in any group. Very quickly I realised this could be a racial movie. So race wasn't the initial spark, but I realised it could [be a focal point], and that was where my instinct was coming from. As we got into the initial years of the Obama administration, it became more clear than ever to me that race was a conversation people were increasingly uncomfortable having. There was this “post-racial” lie going on. So this movie, the purpose of it became to represent the black experience, but also just [represent] race in the horror-movie genre and in the public conversation, in a way that I felt was taboo."
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