Noah Schnapp & Garrett Hedlund star in “The Tutor”

Noah isn’t good enough an actor to carry this off

R1 he looks fine in the trailer

Show ass or don't bother releasing the movie

No schnapping way will I pay money to see this schnapperama.

He's so plain

[quote] He's so plain

Garrett?

Will Mr Schnapp be showing off his schnapper?

One of my favorite guilty pleasures is The Crush (1993), starring a young Cary Elwes and a 15-year-old Alicia Silverstone. I get similar vibes with this movie but I doubt either male will be able to compare to a bespectacled Mr. Elwes.

Is this a Little Gen Z Homosexual Boy movie?

[quote] Even beyond that, characters are getting drugged and potentially framed for sexual inappropriateness, and many institutions are not investigating any of this properly for the story’s convenience. The filmmakers are the ones that need lecturing in putting together a competent sleazy thriller.

r3 Sounds like you might get your wish. The movie is apparently terrible though which I don't think anyone will be surprised by.

Eh I'd watch it

hole? dong???

Garrett Hedlund looks sickly

He has to co-parent with Emma Roberts, and it's obviously taken a toll. The kid isn't even in school yet.

I know Victoria isn't a kid anymore, but it's still weird to see her in these kinds of roles. She could still get away with playing a high school or college girl on some CW show.

The premise fails because the actor cast as the tutor isn't remotely good looking enough to spark the interest of a stalker. No one is going to stalk a frowsy frayed balding beanpole. This is where you need star wattage to suspend the disbelief.

"We were going for a very specific look when we cast the role of the Tutor, and that look is the top in the kind of themed porn you really don't want people to know you watch." - Jordan Ross (director)

Movie is being panned by any and all critics that dared to sit through it. Who on Noah's team decided to associate his name with this trash? Garrett Hedlund and Victoria Justice are barely there, washed up has-beens. Noah is a rising star with a social media presence and Netflix main role. Simply dreadful casting.

Is that Schnapp, as in peach or peppermint schnapps ?

Or Snapp, as in ginger or lemon Snaps ?

r18 It apparently only took 4 weeks to film so my only guess is he wanted something he could finish off quickly in between classes and partying. I don't know why he even bothered though he seems pretty uninterested in his acting career outside ST.

[quote] Movie is being panned by any and all critics that dared to sit through it. Who on Noah's team decided to associate his name with this trash? Garrett Hedlund and Victoria Justice are barely there, washed up has-beens. Noah is a rising star with a social media presence and Netflix main role. Simply dreadful casting.

Maybe because he's NOT actually a rising star?

[Quote] Garrett Hedlund and Victoria Justice are barely there, washed up has-beens.

Washed up? She's only 30 lol

Once ST is over, Noah will be a TikTok star.

If only I'd let Brad Pitt bone me back in the day!

Is it a gay movie? If not I don't care.

R24 I thought it was Eric who Brad wanted to bone.

r25 It looks gay but I'm partly convinced that obvious third act twist a critic mentioned is going to be Hedlund is Noahs real dad and that's why he's stalking him.

I’d see it just to support a gay young actor

R27 A young man can have a very special relationship with his dad.

I would watch it. I don’t get people who rely on critics. That’s so weird to me. Critics scores and viewers scores are very different from one another most times.

R27 I suspect that too and if that's correct this movie will be lame as fuck.

Noah isn’t a rising star. Stranger Things will always be the biggest thing on his resume and the only thing that keeps him relevant. Millie Bobby Brown is the only one who will have a good career outside of it. There is that one fat kid who does Broadway. So he may do well for himself in that field. Noah isn’t a good actor in general.

PS he was not even 18 yet when he filmed this. He just turned 18 in October. So no, he won’t be naked. He was minor still.

Not to be confused with . . .

r32 The only people that wants to hire Millie Bobby Brown are Netflix though. Precisely because of Stranger Things. She's not done anything that isn't Netflix film aimed at teenage girls since that Godzilla movie years ago. And off all of them I'd place money on her having the biggest career shock once ST ends as she's always going to be Eleven even years later to most people. The only one who I think has a secured future is Sadie Sink because she has a good agent and manages to pick a variety of roles in films that are well received

As for Noah's acting its fine. He blows 90% of the ST cast out of the water (especially you Finn) and he's giving the best performance out of the mains even in this crappy film. Give him an OK director and a script that isn't a cobbled together porn plotline, and I'm sure he can do even better. I doubt he'll ever get a role more famous than Will but the odds are against the entire cast in getting anything better than that gig.

Noah’s performance hasn’t been better than anyone on that cast. He’s mediocre at best.

No one cares who is casting MBB, fact is she’s the one who is being cast. And she was in the two last Godzilla movies, yes. She was paid $12 million for Enola Holmes 2 and just turned down a $20 million dollar paycheck to do a ST spinoff solo film. None of the rest of them are banking that kind of money.

All of the females of ST will do better than the males. Noah, especially now coming out as gay, will be limited to only certain roles.

Nah he's one of the better ones. Also given you were saying he's fine at r 2 I'm interested why you've suddenly changed your mind. Did you find the trailer that bad? I'm pretty sure he knows he's limited to roles going forward he's playing against type as a manipulative gay themed twink here not Rambo.

My point is Millie's entire career is Netflix No one else has hired her since she was a kid and she only has Netflix because of ST after ST and she moves into her 20s they have no need to be as generous to her as they have been. especially since some of these movies sound terrible a dragon princess kidnapping movie with Chris Pratt and a lesbian robot thing by the Russo brothers

Word on the Twitter streets is the twist is exactly what R27 said. Hedlund is Noah's biological father and Noah stalks him to get close to him and the future kid Victoria J is having. He wants to be the only kid in his life. Boring hetero bullshit.

Garrett is 38.

R38 That's a Hollywood 51. Once you turn 30, you're cast as someone's father or grandfather regardless of your true age.

Not true. Michael Douglas and Harrison Ford, Warren Beatty, et al played romantic leads into their dotage.

r37 The marketing playing this up as Schnapps character being in love with Hedlund is certainly a choice someone should have reconsidered then given the fact they're making an openly gay actor seem like a sexual predator. On the other hand its also the only reason anyone was going to see this. so maybe they had a point.

R40 because older men with young women has always been a thing. Why? Because the majority of film watchers are men. Men make up the majority of movie going, not women. That’s why it can be a 50 year old man (who still looks great, like Michael Douglas did) but the woman must be young and beautiful.

R36 and everyone is allowed to have a different opinion. Just because you think he’s great doesn’t mean we all feel the same. He’s average at best. He’s actually bad numerous times throughout the show, especially on the most recent episodes.

Not to mention he is now out and gay in Hollywood. The roles offered to him will be minimal.

R38 a 38 year old being the father to a teenager can happen. I went to Middle School with a girl who has a kid at 13. Teenage parents exist.

I assume Garrett’s character didn’t know he knocked someone up as a teen.

He also could be playing older.

Who had*

R8 my mother bought me the VHS to that movie around 1998 because I loved it so much. I was around 12 at the time and brought it to school to lend it to a friend and my English teacher took it away when she saw it. My mom had to come to school and get it from her 😂😂😂

Noah looks like a rat fink

r2, he seems wooden and stiff to me

There’s a rumor spreading around that Noah is sleeping with a college professor at Penn lol

R50 Oh so this film is autobiographical then. Least we know where they got the funding from now.

Haven't we seen this movie before, only it was called "Book of Love" with Simon Baker?

Reminds me of The Crush.

R53, Reminds me of “The Perfect Teacher”.

[quote]Word on the Twitter streets is the twist is exactly what [R27] said. Hedlund is Noah's biological father and Noah stalks him to get close to him and the future kid Victoria J is having. He wants to be the only kid in his life. Boring hetero bullshit.

So, no fucking? Pass.

If he’s his father, then it’s such a f weird movie because some scenes i’ve seen online it look like there’s a sexual vibe between them.

What scenes have you watched online???

[quote] The Tutor teases homoerotic tension between Ethan and Jackson that is momentarily intriguing, then sadly abandoned.

r56 They definitely played up the gay for the promotion. Maybe it was the original intent and then they changed their minds or something?

Gay = Box Office flop.

But it will bomb anyway so they should have just kept it.

Oh this was never going to be a hit. Its limited release and I don't think its even showing internationally. But a gay thriller with one of the ST kids could at least have a cult audience even if it was bad. Now it fails even at that.

Where is this flop even released at? It's certainly not streaming or in any theaters near my city. I've lost all interest.

I never miss a Matt Borlenghi film.

It’s no “Bros”.

R54 never seen it but at least they have David for eyecandy.

[quote]Word on the Twitter streets is the twist is exactly what [R27] said. Hedlund is Noah's biological father and Noah stalks him to get close to him and the future kid Victoria J is having. He wants to be the only kid in his life. Boring hetero bullshit.

I was one of just 23 people who paid money to see this tripe over the weekend, and Twitter was wrong.

WARNING: SPOILERS BELOW.

Five years ago, Hedlund had an affair with Noah's mother. Soon after, she was found dead in a lake, and though Hedlund was questioned, her death was ruled a suicide. When Noah's father died of cancer, he was able to read the autopsy report, his mother's diaries, etc. and came to believe that Hedlund murdered his mother. Noah inherited a lot of money and with the help of some other rich, conniving teens, he hires Hedlund to tutor him ($2,500 per day!), so he can set him up (faking two physical assaults, drug-laced strawberries, dirty/compromising pics) and totally ruin his life.

After accomplishing his goal, Noah demands that Hedlund meet him at the lake house where his mother died, so he can force him to admit he killed his mother. In the grand finale, we learn that Hedlund is COMPLETELY DERANGED (this is the big twist!) and did kill Noah's mother. Noah shoots Hedlund, and he falls into the lake to a certain death. However, his body is not recovered and in the last scene, Hedlund is being interviewed for another tutoring job.

No gay content at all, and even worse, Hedlund is so unappealing in this. His fake receding hairline was so distracting. Noah's performance came across as more bratty than creepy. And Victoria Justice was so fucking dull as the pregnant girlfriend that it made me wish they'd hired Victoria Jackson in the role. That would have been no less absurd than the movie's ridiculous script. Wrapping this shit up, The Tutor is like one of those bad direct-to-VHS thrillers from the mid-90s, but without the sex and nudity. Proceed with caution.

R65 I can't believe you paid for it 😭 And Victoria being boring is just par for the course with the wife/mother role.

R65 disappointing. At no point in the movie did Noah's character tie Garrett's character down to a bed spread-eagle and ride him/edge him until he begged for mercy??!! Disappointing!!!

[quote]Word on the Twitter streets is the twist is exactly what [[R27]] said. Hedlund is Noah's biological father and Noah stalks him to get close to him

This was the plot of "Daddy"

[quote] a certain death. However, his body is not recovered and in the last scene, Hedlund is being interviewed for another tutoring job.

Good God they were trying to set up a sequel? That director had high hopes.

Well it was filmed before he came out. If he is carrying on acting post college hopefully Noah sticks to more gay focused roles in future he's clearly better at those.

[Quote] At no point in the movie did Noah's character tie Garrett's character down to a bed spread-eagle and ride him/edge him until he begged for mercy??!! Disappointing!!!

Now i want a gay remake of Cat People.

[quote] Judging from the marketing of The Tutor, you’d be forgiven for mistaking the film for a contemporary queer update of a film like The Crush (1993). While not exclusively the purview of the 90s, a film like The Crush – in which an underage “sexpot” with a malicious streak ensnares an older man in her web of sexual intrigue – prospered in the era of Erotic Thrillers, DTV and VCRS.

[quote] Films in which adults are tempted into sexual relationships with minors are considered taboo for mainstream contemporary audiences. This is why the marketing of The Tutor was intriguing: the trailer suggests that rich, privileged teen Jackson (Stranger Things’ Noah Schnapp) unfairly accuses his working class tutor Ethan (Garrett Hedlund) of improper behaviour. The young man then begins to stalk and effectively ruin the life of the older man, jeopardizing his reputation and the status of his relationship with pregnant girlfriend, Annie (Victoria Justice).

[quote] The reality is that The Tutor is (sadly) less queer than its marketing suggests. While Schnapp came out as gay in January 2023 and his upper crust character is queer-coded thanks to a penchant for fashionable turtlenecks, the Ryan King-scripted film is most interested in the economic disparity between the two men.

Where is the movie about the aggressive psychotic bottom I was promised? Ask critics.

I actually liked Garret in Mojave with Oscar Isaac.

R17 Did he actually said that or are you pulling my dick?

r73 I'm pulling your dick. But quite a lot of people noted the similarities.

Though I'm confused about why Noah was snuggling up with his mothers murderer now I actually know the plot.

R65 Bitch I'm in love with you for saving me the 1.5 hours of my life I'd never get back watching this SHIT. Noah's ST acting turned out to be him expressing his own emotions as a gay teen and not some award winning performer. He needs to tap into the TikTok market and never touch a D list movie again. To the Razzies with this one.

We're done with this pandering for gay money with no payoff @Hollywood

Meh I've seen a few reviews that said his performance was one of the only good parts of this crap. At any rate one badly written film made in a few weeks as a 17 year old is hardly enough to write someone off as a bad actor.

Remind me of his career in 5 years post-college and Stranger Things. I don't hate his acting, but he's not doing much to advance his skills in that field.

Well no like you said he's in business school at Wharton. And I'd say its honestly probably the smartest career decision he could have made. If he wants to carry on acting after graduation he'll still only be about 21, and has plenty of time to continue to improve and grow into more adult roles, and whether or not Will's gay angst last season was taken from real life it was still one of the best portrayals of a closeted gay teen I've seen in years and he did it with barely any lines so we know what roles he's good at. If he doesn't want to act he doesn't but its not like 90% of his co-stars are ahead of him career wise or are noticeably better.

Where'd this shit go?

I don’t think it came out yet

It was released in like 3 cinemas and the cast could barely be bothered doing promo so it came and went with no one caring. Will probably be on streaming in a year or so.

So it was a very limited release. That’s common for very small budget films that aren’t having money poured into them etc.

R80 to the abyss.

Troll 6029 Really went on an emotional journey in this thread.

Its online to buy or pirate now if anyone has 90 minutes to kill. Its mostly more boring than bad and nothing gay happens.

I found it in HD on some "movie sites".

There was a rather salacious French movie called Private Lessons from 2008. Mentor grooms a boy with the help of a couple he knows.

OK, I watched it this afternoon on one of those 'sites'. It wasn't good but it wasn't bad. Luckily, it's only 90 minutes, but a compact suspenseful movie.

Garrett Hedlund is the only actor who gives it his all. He's smart and sexy, and really makes his character believable with what little he has to work with in the scenes.

The rest of the cast are charicatures, not characters. They're one dimensional, and predictable. This is especially true of Noah Schnapp, who does a terriffic charicature of Jim Parsons' 'Sheldon' on BBT.

This movie could've been much more interesting if there was a 'gay angle' or some romantic scenes between the two lead actors. Sadly, it never goes in that direction. Bottom line - wait until it streams on Netflix or HBO.

Does Noah show any skin?

Was Nolan Gould unavailable to film this?

r91, he was too busy creating content for his social media. That is why the producers went with Noah, who had some time between filming Stranger Things seasons and hanging out with his co-star Millie Bobby Brown.

R90 he was 17 while filming.

R90 settle down, Bryan.

Is Gould even still an actor? He might have retired after Modern Family. Noah's at least keeping up the pretense while he Tiktoks his way through business school.

When did TikTok add a business school?