2022 · drama
Don't Make Me Go
Directed by Hannah Marks1h 50m2022
A terminally ill man and his teenage daughter embark on a road trip from California to New Orleans for his 20th college reunion. While there, he secretly hopes she can reunite with the mother who left them long ago.
Our read: Don't Make Me Go (2022) reads as a neutral, steady, grounded drama entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, steady, gentle drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, tender.
- gentle
- tender
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