2019 · drama · tv-movie · music
American Son
Directed by Kenny Leon1h 30m2019
Time passes and tension mounts in a Florida police station as an estranged interracial couple awaits news of their missing teenage son.
Our read: American Son (2019) reads as a heavy, steady, grounded drama · tv-movie · music entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, steady, measured drama / tv-movie, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- intense
- bleak
- cold
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