2007 · fantasy · comedy · family
Evan Almighty
Directed by Tom Shadyac1h 36m2007
God contacts Junior Congressman Evan Baxter and tells him to build an ark in preparation for a great flood.
Our read: Evan Almighty (2007) reads as a cosy, kinetic, inventive fantasy · comedy · family entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, kinetic, gentle fantasy / comedy, inventive in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender.
- cosy
- brisk
- gentle
- redemptive
- tender
- funny
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“You want light faith-based family comedy with Steve Carell and slapstick ark chaos.”
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