2012 · drama · music · coming-of-age
Any Day Now
Directed by Travis Fine1h 37m2012
In the late 1970s, when a mentally handicapped teenager is abandoned, a gay couple takes him in and becomes the family he's never had. But once the unconventional living arrangement is discovered by authorities, the men must fight the legal system to adopt the child.
Our read: Any Day Now (2012) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded drama · music · coming-of-age entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, measured, measured drama / music, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, tender.
- sombre
- measured
- tender
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