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2008 · comedy · family · action · adventure

College Road Trip

Directed by Roger Kumble1h 23m2008
ElsewhereIMDb4.417kRT13%Metacritic36
  • cosy
  • kinetic
  • gentle
  • redemptive
  • tender
  • epic-stakes
Movie DNA

Cosy, breathless, gentle comedy / family, grounded in texture. Redemptive, epic, tender, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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When an overachieving high school student decides to travel around the country to choose the perfect college, her overprotective cop father also decides to accompany her in order to keep her on the straight and narrow.

Our read · College Road Trip (2008) reads as a cosy, breathless, grounded comedy · family · action entry — gentle in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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