Sweetly neurotic countdown-to-the-prom captures teen life in South Florida.

| Aug 15, 2011

Most proms don't involve choreographed dances, losers winning prom queen or cameos by famous bands. Bart Got A Room is a much needed believable look at the big night.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 14, 2010

Hecker's film finds a charm that eludes most movies dependent on misplaced prostitutes, bedroom sex noises and male insecurities.

Full Review | May 15, 2009

totally wacky, a rite-of-passage romp

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 9, 2009

When we get to the prom, the music sounds like nothing you'd ever hear at one. In fact, I'd be surprised if any actual teenagers in the year 2009 found any reference points in Bart Got a Room relevant to their own existence.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | May 1, 2009

Here's something you don't see every day: a high-school comedy for old poops.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 1, 2009

Bart Got A Room is an affectionately nuanced comedy of manners whose focus is first love and the navigation of complex relationships.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 1, 2009

...rarely holds the viewer's interest in as rapt a manner as Hecker presumably intended.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 1, 2009

Hines and Macy get some laughs, but the film itself feels insufficiently developed.

Full Review | Apr 6, 2009

It's an inventive take on a story that we've heard a million times before.

| Apr 6, 2009

While hardly the most novel of stories, what puts Bart Got a Room above the norm is a tight and charming screenplay and Hecker's way with mood and place.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 3, 2009

A fresh and amusing teen comedy all about the anxiety of trying to find a date for the prom.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 3, 2009

The sight of William H. Macy sporting a Jew-fro as a divorced dad trying to help his nerdy son score with a prom date is among the myriad delights in the gut-bustingly funny Bart Got a Room.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 3, 2009

Bart Got a Room pulls you into its comically hyperbolic world of teen anxiety %u2013 and is solid enough for long enough to disappoint you in the end.

| Apr 3, 2009

A teenage comedy with an old-fogy scent.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 3, 2009

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 3, 2009

Kaplan has that lean, awkward look of a colt still finding its footing, which suits Danny, and he does a good job with giving his character the naivet and desperation of a kid hoping to change what seems to be the "loser" setting of his life.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 2, 2009

Writer/director Brian Hecker has an impressive grasp on his material, from the swinging soundtrack to the old-school setting.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 2, 2009

Hecker's got a knack for teen misery, but he's aiming higher than beers-and-boobs moronity. What follows is excruciating excavated high school trauma

| Original Score: B- | Apr 2, 2009

Big laughs, big heart, big teenage moments. Really understands high school and being young.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 2, 2009