Fifteen year olds? WTF

Yeah they definitely look like they're in their mid 30s. It was super distracting. I thought they actually looked younger without those god-awful wigs.

And what about Guy Pierce not aging a day?! I felt like they cast him because it was Guy Pierce, which I understand, but it was distracting his dad looked like he could be his 5 year's older boyfriend!

Overall I overlooked the age thing because it was such a well-done film but point taken. Especially Tim! John pulled it off a bit better w/ clothes and stuff and a more realistic wig.

HA! I just watched this on Netflix and didn't think I would get through it after the first 20 minutes. I read the movie summary first and it stated '15 year olds', so I paused the movie thinking I must have read the wrong summary. Wow...what were the producers/casting thinking? Also, Craig Stott's acting was terrible through most of the film, except for when he was in the latter stages of AIDS. Another poster mentioned Guy Pearce never aging throughout the movie; his wife even looked much older than him. I still understood the importance of making these types of films; I am only stating the obvious 'WTF'. If you are going to make a movie using all this talent...why not pay attention to details that surely have been problems in many other films.

The wigs were bad, but the 70's hair was too. I have the pictures to prove it. I also wondered about the use of obviously older actors to portray the teens. By the end of the film though I agreed with the choice. The story, the characters, and their relationships with each other, and with their parents, benefited from the continuity. Using younger actors for the first half of the film would have solved some problems and created others. The disjointed timeline, which I thought was really effective, would have been dissected using two casts.

Have to agree. One IMD reviewer wrote that the two main leads were "perfectly cast." But they are manifestly too old, in their mid-20s, to be playing high school teenagers, fumbling around with adolescent sex. It was embarrassing. I'm surprised I lasted 22 minutes.

Yeh. I thought the story was beautiful but the aged men acting as teens was unsettling. They had old man stubble and matured bodies. How did that even pass the screen test?? Bad decision. It's like a tree growing out of someone's ear and no one saying anything. And Sarah snook acting as a teenage girl... she looked like a mother held down with a mortgage. I kept wtfing throughout. This movie deserved better casting, at least for the younger years.