2018 · comedy · drama · romance
Candy Jar
Directed by Ben Shelton1h 32m2018
Dueling high school debate champs who are at odds on just about everything forge ahead with ambitious plans to get into the colleges of their dreams.
Our read: Candy Jar (2018) reads as a cosy, kinetic, grounded comedy · drama · romance entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, kinetic, gentle comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
- cosy
- brisk
- gentle
- redemptive
- tender
- intimate
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