2013 · comedy
A.C.O.D.
Directed by Stuart Zicherman1h 28m2013
A grown man is still caught in the crossfire of his parents' 15 year divorce. He discovers he was unknowingly part of a study on divorced children and is enlisted in a follow-up years later, which wreaks new havoc on his family.
Our read: A.C.O.D. (2013) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded comedy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- brisk
- gentle
- intimate
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“You want sharp divorce-comedy chaos with Adam Scott dodging his parents' wreckage.”
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