
The Prom(2020)
After the PTA of a conservative high school in Indiana bans same-sex couples from attending the annual prom, a gang of flamboyant Broadway stars try to boost their image by showing up to support two lesbian students.


“a musical dream come true”
If you had a love-potion, who would you make fall madly in love with you? Timothy, prone to escaping his dismal high school reality through dazzling musical daydreams, gets to answer that question in a very real way. After his eccentric teacher casts him as Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream, he stumbles upon a recipe hidden within the script to create the play's magical, purple love-pansy.

Tanner Cohen
Timothy

Judy McLane
Donna

Zelda Williams
Frankie

Wendy Robie
Mrs. Tebbit

Jill Larson
Nora Bellinger
Ricky Goldman
Max
Nathaniel David Becker
Jonathon

Christian Stolte
Coach Driskill

David Darlow
Dr. Lawrence Bellinger

Parker Croft
Cooper
Were the World Mine is a fantasy, romance film released in 2008 exploring themes of high school, homophobia, musical, bullying, based on play or musical, school play. Directed by Tom Gustafson, it stars Tanner Cohen, Judy McLane, Zelda Williams. If you had a love-potion, who would you make fall madly in love with you? Timothy, prone to escaping his dismal high school reality through dazzling musical daydreams, gets to answer that question in a very real way. After his eccentric teacher casts him as Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream, he stumbles upon a recipe hidden within the script to create the play's magical, purple love-pansy.
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