2017 · drama · comedy
Almost Friends
Directed by Jake Goldberger1h 45m2017
A man in his mid-20s, still living at home with his mother and stepfather, puts all his eggs in one basket: the girl who works at his local coffee shop. The problem is, she has a serious boyfriend. As they become closer, the line between friendship and intimacy is blurred, and the situation forces both to examine where they are in their lives.
Our read: Almost Friends (2017) reads as a warm, measured, grounded drama · comedy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, measured, gentle drama / comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- measured
- gentle
- intimate
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