2008 · comedy · drama · supernatural
Birds of America
Directed by Craig Lucas1h 25m2008
A regular guy struggles with a repressive home and professional life, as well as making amends for the trouble his free-spirited brother and sister cause about town.
Our read: Birds of America (2008) reads as a neutral, steady, grounded comedy · drama · supernatural entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, steady, gentle comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- gentle
- intimate
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