Product Details

• Region: All Regions
• Number of discs: 1
• Studio: Quality Information Publishers, Inc.
• Run Time: 12 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B001IV323C
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #352,877 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Act Your Age is a fantastic vintage social guidance film full of campy moments, ludicrous characters, and unintentional comedy. Jim, a disruptive adolescent, gets a lecture from the principal about the "infantile reactions" of teens who are struggling to mature. While Jim is serving his punishment, he flashes back to times when he witnessed his friends succumbing to tantrums or "acting like babies." The behavior of these kids and the ways in which it was considered objectionable are sidesplitting. With the help of family, and school officials, Jim devises a bizarre "How Old Am I?" chart which allows him to assess his own maturity, personality, and ability to work out his own problems. Act Your Age soars with kookiness and a bit of timeless advice for adolescents.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Save your money!, December 26, 2011

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Monac (Milwaukee, WI, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Adolescent Development Difficulties in Amusing Classic Movie: Act Your Age DVD (1949) (DVD)

People considering buying this DVD should know two things:

1) This short film can be seen for free (and, I believe, downloaded for free) at archive(dot)org (I am not sure about Amazon's policy regarding outside links) as well as many other short films and public domain feature films.

2) The Rifftrax people, formerly the Mystery Science 3000 crew, covered this film on their DVD collection "Best of Rifftrax Shorts Volume 2", which can probably be purchased for about the price of this disc, and includes seven other shorts!

So you can buy this if you want, but I don't know why you would.