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Starring: Rueby Wood, Joshua Bassett, Aria Brooks, Lisa Kudrow, Norbert Leo Butz, Michelle Federe

OUR RATING: ★★★☆☆

Story:

Disney+ musical family comedy written and directed by Tim Federle. Better Nate Than Ever (2022) centers on 13 year-old Nate Foster (Rueby Wood), who has big Broadway dreams. There’s only one problem, he can’t even land a part in the school play. But when his parents leave town, Nate and his best friend, Libby (Aria Brooks), sneak off to the Big Apple to prove everyone wrong. But a chance encounter with Nate’s long-lost Aunt Heidi (Lisa Kudrow) turns his journey upside-down, and together they must learn that life’s greatest adventures are only as big as your dreams.

 

Our Favorite Quotes:

'Find your light. Everybody forgets that. But how are they going to remember you if they can't see you?' - Heidi (Better Nate Than Ever) Click To Tweet

 

Best Quotes


 

Libby: [over phone] Today is very low stakes for me. I’ll just be happy if I get cast in the chorus.
Nate: You should have auditioned for a big part. We should be like nervous about this together.
Libby: Yeah, no thanks. I don’t really do rejection.


 

Nate: Today is the day, Ma. Is this sweater trying too hard? I want my look to say, “I am honored to have been cast as the lead role, but I wasn’t expecting it.”


 

Anthony: Are you wearing lipstick?
Nate: No.
Anthony: Bro, you’re wearing lipstick.
Nate: It’s lip gloss. Clinical strength. The pediatrician said my lip skin is unusually sensitive.
Sherrie: Did the pediatrician actually say that?
Nate: Work with me here, Ma.


 

Nate: Libby, I wasn’t even cast as Lincoln’s understudy. I didn’t even get his son. Who’s dead. And, yes, we will have fun in the chorus together, but I was cast as a tree, Libby. A tree. Do you realize what this says about me, right? That my parents are right. I should just give up on my dreams now.
Libby: Can I talk yet, or are you still yelling?
Nate: I’m still yelling!


 

Nate: [as the toilet flushes in the next stall] Sorry, I thought we were alone!
Girl: You guys are so weird.
Libby: We know.


 

Libby: I’ve got some breaking news about this weekend.
Nate: Whatever it is, it better not involve any more glitter lip gloss. I’m serious.


 

Nate: [referring going to the audition for Lilo & Stitch] How would we even get to New York? Would Stitch pick us up in his spaceship?
Libby: Okay, first of all, tone. Second, no. We’ll sneak away on an overnight bus.
Nate: Libby, my mom doesn’t even let me go to Rite Aid alone.
Libby: Come on, Foster. Live a little. I’d hate to not be your date to the Tony Awards.


 

Libby: [referring to Heidi] You really think we’re going to arrive in New York City and run into your aunt? In a city of seventeen billion people?
Nate: With my luck? Yes.
Libby: Nate. You didn’t even get cast as Lincoln’s dead son. You don’t have luck.


 

Nate: You know what? Forget New York. I’m just trying to survive seventh grade.


 

Sherrie: Daddy is taking me away for the weekend. Somewhere fancy in West Virginia for our big anniversary! Surprise!
Anthony: We can afford fancy?
Rex: That’s why God invented credit cards.


 

Libby: [as they’re about to leave for New York] Okay. Let’s go over the checklist. Did you take a series of selfies at your house to post on Instagram at strategic intervals?
Nate: Yes, I have over two hundred options.


 

Libby: Did you pack your headshot?
Libby: [as Nate shows her his photo] Nate, that’s like a wallet-sized school photo from when you had your worst haircut.
Nate: My dad doesn’t have a job, Libby. We don’t just have glossy eight-by-tens ready to go.
Libby: Tone.


 

Nate: I’ve always wanted to climb out a window. Like the Tonight duet, on the fire escape, in West Side Story.
Libby: You really want to break your ankle before we get to this audition?


 

Nate: Why are you doing all this for me?
Libby: Because, it damages my clout, when my best friend isn’t even cast as Abraham Lincoln’s understudy. And I figured you could use the mood lift. Plus, my love language is quality time, so.
Nate: Did you just say you love me?


 

Libby: [to Nate] So, when we get there, I know you kind of think of Times Square as the 1950s Guys and Dolls fantasia, but people don’t actually dance in the street. They mug you.


 

Libby: Maybe we should just turn around. My hair doesn’t do wet.
Nate: We just got here. Live a little.
Libby: Oh, look at you quoting me. I’ll allow it.


 

Assistant Casting Director: We are expecting a thousand kids in the next twenty-four hours, so, I need the first twenty-five kids to look at their numbers, and line themselves up against this mirrored wall in ascending order.
Nate: [to Libby] I didn’t realize there’d be math on this test.


 

Libby: You don’t have your lucky rabbit foot.
Nate: Jimmy Madison took it. I hope karma hits him in the form of a bus. I mean, a metaphorical bus. Obviously, I’m against violence at a core level, but…

 

'Musicals allow us to say things we can't actually say in real life.' - Director (Better Nate Than Ever) Click To Tweet

 

Stage Daughter: [to Nate] Have you done costume character work before? I played a snow-man in a full body suit in the Radio City Christmas Spectacular. Twice. I turned it down the third year, so I wouldn’t be pigeon-holed as not having a face.


 

Heidi: This is incredible. I was this close to not even coming to this audition today. And then, something in me was like, “Do it, Heidi.” And then this! It’s like you’re a sign.
Nate: Thank you. I’ve been called many names in my life, but “sign” is a first.


 

Heidi: [to Nate] And I love that you’re still acting. I’m not surprised. I’m not. Because you were the only toddler whose first word was “me!”


 

Garret Kekoa: Before I make the first cut, does anyone have a special skill they’d like to demonstrate?
Nate: “Make the first cut.” All we did was scream.


 

Casting Director: Alright. If I don’t read your number, I will see you on…
Nate: [to Libby and Heidi] “The next one!” Like there will even be a next one. Cut at my first and last Broadway audition. That’s going to be the name of my memoir title.


 

Nate: I would trade my entire life with you right now, if I could be a caterer in New York.
Heidi: One day, Nate, I have complete confidence that you’ll be a caterer in New York. In the meantime, middle school is calling your name.


 

Casting Director: [looking at Nate’s headshot photo] That is the worst haircut I’ve seen in thirty-two years of casting.


 

Libby: I kind of only do the school shows to be with, you know? With you.
Nate: Libby, you know how much you mean to me, but I’m not like that.
Wry Female Passenger: Honey, let him go. I’ll explain to you on the ride home.
Bus Driver: Are you staying on, or are you getting off?
Nate: I’m really sorry, Lib.
Wry Female Passenger: I’ve been there, sweetheart. And I married the guy!


 

Casting Director: [to Nate] I’ve never had a boy sing Let It Go, I’ll give you that.


 

Nate: Sorry, do you mind if I exit out the window? The West Side Story balcony scene is on my bucket list.
Casting Director: We’re on the fourth floor and there’s no fire escape.
Nate: Oh, yeah. That makes sense.

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Nate: [over phone] This is why I love you. I really do. And just, look, you’ve had my back from day one, and even if you don’t like being on stage, Lib, you’re still a star. I still need you. And when you find the thing that you love, I’ll be cheering for you. Lib, you’re being really quiet. Are we still best friends?


 

Heidi: [referring to Nate] I spent like fifteen minutes with the kid today, and he is around a hundred times funnier and quicker than I am. He’s if like Nathan Lane and the Tasmanian Devil had a baby.


 

Anthony: Do you want to tell me why my idiot little brother is in New York City right now, going viral on TikTok? Well?
Libby: Do I want to tell you, or do I have to tell you?


 

Nate: I’m the only boy in seventh grade who knows every lyric to Corner of the Sky. There’s no justice.
Heidi: Well, “Everything has its season, everything has its time.” I guarantee you are not the only boy who knows every lyric to Pippin. Some just aren’t comfortable yet letting everyone know it.


 

Heidi: You remind me of like me.
Nate: Really? That’s like a compliment?
Heidi: You think that’s a compliment? That’s amazing.
Nate: Of course, it’s a compliment. You’re literally all I want to be when I grow up. Three weeks on Broadway, an apartment in New York.
Heidi: Queens, but…
Nate: Queens is still New York. And you’re still my hero.


 

Heidi: [to Nate] Find your light. Everybody forgets that. But how are they going to remember you if they can’t see you?


 

Nate: Okay. Please, just let me stay for two more hours, so I can go to my callback. I know I embarrass you, Anthony. Every day. And I know that you hate being my brother, just please, let me have this one thing.
Libby: I’ve been trying to explain how big a Broadway callback is for seven hours, so, good luck.


 

Libby: [to Nate] But, just for the record, you may have run away, but Anthony apparently threw quite a party. Which I’m sure your parents wouldn’t be happy about. So, you have some leverage here.
Heidi: Ooh, you’re good. You should be an agent someday.


 

Nate: Oh, thank goodness! A subway person. I’m experiencing an emergency.
MTA Worker: An emergency? Really?
Nate: I need to get to Manhattan. It’s a matter of life, death, and dreams.


 

MTA Worker: Don’t he look like that kid that went viral on TikTok?
Nate: I did? Yes! That’s me! I’m the kid!
MTA Worker: Can I get a selfie for my niece?
Nate: Can I get a free ride on the subway?


 

Nate: Excuse me, do you know the stop for Broadway?
Businesswoman on Subway: Which Broadway? There is a lot of Broadways.
Nate: You know like The Broadway.


 

Heidi: [referring to Nate] As long as he’s alive, everything will be okay.
Anthony: So I can kill him.
Libby: Over his agent’s dead body.


 

Anthony: You haven’t seen anyone this morning who looks like me? Just like, a little shorter, kind of gawky?
Libby: He’s not gawky, he is incredibly castable, and very cuddly. No matter who he chooses to love.


 

Heidi: I feel like Elisabeth Shue in Adventures in Babysitting when the kid she’s watching gets stabbed in the foot. I’m a hundred. Hi, I’m a hundred years-old.


 

Director: Do you have any questions before you sing?
Nate: Just one. In the movie, Stitch can’t really speak sentences, so, how does he sing lyric in the musical?
Director: Because, you know, musicals allow us to say things we can’t actually say in real life.


 

Anthony: I didn’t know you could like do all that.
Nate: You don’t let me sing in the house.
Libby: Wow, your comebacks have gotten sharper in New York.
Heidi: Really?
Libby: What? They have.


 

Nate: I hope I don’t see you at Christmas this year.
Heidi: Jeez, Nate. That was harsh.
Nate: Because I hope you get the part in the play and you’re too busy to come home.
Heidi: Oh, I skipped out on that audition, sweetie. I just wanted to be here with you. And I’m so glad that I was.


 

Libby: [to Nate] Not to alarm anyone, but your mom is on the phone with your brother right now, and she and your dad are leaving the resort soon. And Anthony said a lot of words under his breath that I can’t really say in front of an adult. But I believe he’d bleeping like you to get in the bleeping truck, now. So, basically, if you two are going to cry, cry bleeping quick.


 

Sherrie: Anthony said Nate couldn’t come to the phone because, you’re not going to believe this, Nate is teaching him how to sing.
Rex: That’s kind of nice. Yeah?
Sherrie: Yeah.
Rex: As long as it’s not Wicked. I can’t. I really can’t.


 

Nate: Thanks for making me run away. Seriously. It was, you know, very agent-like of you.
Libby: I think I found my thing.
Nate: Love you like a sister!
Libby: Love you like a sister too!


 

Nate: [mid-credits lines] Before I met Libby, I had no friends. But now, I have friend. And because of her, I will be performing the role of Stitch at two matinees per week, and sometimes more often if the star is sick.


 

Heidi: Before Nate came back into my life, I was a cater waiter with a rent-controlled apartment. But now, I’m A Solitary Woman, with a rent-controlled apartment. And an amazing family. And agent.


 

Anthony: For the longest time, I always thought of Libby as my little brother’s loud, intelligent friend. But now, I pledge that if I ever decide to go pro one day, I will hire Libby as my sports agent. Is that good?
Libby: Let’s just say there’s a reason Nate’s the actor of the family.
Anthony: Could I try another take?
Nate: Hold on, you need lip gloss.

 


 

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