2013 · comedy
Brain Drain
Directed by Paolo Ruffini1h 40m2013
Five friends forge their resumes and enroll to Oxford in orders to help one of them end up with the girl he's in love with.
Our read: Brain Drain (2013) reads as a warm, breathless, grounded comedy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, breathless, gentle comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- brisk
- gentle
- intimate
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