2020 · comedy · drama · coming-of-age
Big Time Adolescence
Directed by Jason Orley1h 31m2020
A seemingly bright and mostly innocent 16-year-old named Mo attempts to navigate high school under the guidance of his best friend Zeke, an unmotivated-yet-charismatic college dropout. Although Zeke genuinely cares about Mo, things start to go awry as he teaches Mo nontraditional life lessons in drug dealing, partying, and dating. Meanwhile, Mo’s well-meaning dad tries to step in and take back the reins of his son’s upbringing.
Our read: Big Time Adolescence (2020) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded comedy · drama · coming-of-age entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, measured comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
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- intimate
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