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Just Getting Started

Play trailer 2:02 Poster for Just Getting Started PG-13 Released Dec 8, 2017 1h 31m Holiday Comedy Play Trailer Watchlist
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Duke Diver is living the high life as the freewheeling manager of a luxurious resort in Palm Springs, Calif. He soon faces competition from Leo, a former military man who likes the same woman that Duke is interested in. When Diver's past suddenly catches up with him, he must put aside his differences and reluctantly team up with Leo to stop whoever is trying to kill him.
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A thoroughly unfunny misfire, Just Getting Started manages the incredible feat of wasting more than a century of combined acting experience from its three talented leads.

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Andrea Gronvall Chicago Reader The producers must think this drivel is what their senior target audience wants, but only someone who's lost an appetite for real life could find any entertainment in it. Mar 25, 2020 Full Review Ben Sachs Chicago Reader The climactic 20 minutes of Just Getting Started are so lazily directed that I wondered why Shelton bothered trying to put action into the movie at all. Dec 14, 2017 Full Review Marc Savlov Austin Chronicle If this is what the "golden years" are going to be like, count me out. Rated: 0.5/5 Dec 14, 2017 Full Review Francis X. Friel Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) Scripts this bad will sometimes seem fun with enough enthusiasm behind or in front of the camera, but the star power on display isn't enough to make this anything but a (hopefully) forgettable misstep for all involved. Rated: 2/5 Mar 21, 2019 Full Review Allen Adams The Maine Edge Just Getting Started never actually gets started, sputtering along until it finally loses steam and creaks to a predictable conclusion. It isn't funny, it isn't engaging and it just isn't any good. Rated: 0/5 Feb 8, 2019 Full Review Jim Lane Sacramento News & Review The movie is a ghastly, ramshackle mess, lurching from gag to clunking gag and exacerbated by Barry Peterson's harsh cinematography, making everyone look considerably older than they are. Rated: 1/5 Dec 21, 2017 Full Review Read all reviews

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alan g Another Morgan Freeloader disaster. Attempt at interracial elderly porn. Avoid like the plague. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 05/07/25 Full Review Kelly S So stupid I couldn't even find anything redeeming about this waste of time. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 01/24/25 Full Review Gary K Pretty scenery, great cast, boring as hell. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 11/29/24 Full Review anthony m It was dreadful to watch such talent go to waste. Morgan Freeman or Tommy Lee Jones are both great actors and always fit the role but this looked like something a lot of C list actors were put in. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 09/14/23 Full Review Al C Lame lame lame. Terrible acting by arguably some of the finest. Final action sequence is akin to F1 if all drivers were on qualudes. Boring as. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 08/07/23 Full Review Jeff C Like my mom said while watching it, " Well at least it's not people shooting people." I don't know. Maybe it's ok. So bad it's good? Probably not. Like this review…not sure what to think. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 07/27/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Duke Diver is living the high life as the freewheeling manager of a luxurious resort in Palm Springs, Calif. He soon faces competition from Leo, a former military man who likes the same woman that Duke is interested in. When Diver's past suddenly catches up with him, he must put aside his differences and reluctantly team up with Leo to stop whoever is trying to kill him.
Director
Ron Shelton
Producer
Bill Gerber, Steve Richards
Screenwriter
Ron Shelton
Distributor
Broad Green Pictures
Production Co
Gerber Pictures, Endurance Media
Rating
PG-13 (Language|Brief Violence|Suggestive Material)
Genre
Holiday, Comedy
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Dec 8, 2017, Wide
Release Date (Streaming)
Feb 27, 2018
Box Office (Gross USA)
$5.5M
Runtime
1h 31m
Aspect Ratio
Scope (2.35:1)
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