2008 · drama · comedy
$5 a Day
Directed by Nigel Cole1h 38m2008
After being released from jail, the son of a con man joins his father on the road.
Our read: $5 a Day (2008) reads as a warm, steady, grounded drama · comedy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, steady, gentle drama / comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- gentle
- intimate
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