2009 · adventure · drama · family
Alabama Moon
Directed by Tim McCanlies1h 39m2009
After the unexpected death of his survivalist father, an eleven year old boy raised in the Alabama wilderness must learn how to make a home in the modern world.
Our read: Alabama Moon (2009) reads as a warm, steady, grounded adventure · drama · family entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, steady, gentle adventure / drama, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
- warm
- redemptive
- tender
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How Alabama Moon feels to watch.
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What watching it is actually like.
“You want a boy surviving the wilderness after losing his father.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if stories of a child burying his dad feel too sad for tonight.
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