2012 · comedy · coming-of-age
Fun Size
Directed by Josh Schwartz1h 27m2012
Wren's Halloween plans go awry when she's made to babysit her brother, who disappears into a sea of trick-or-treaters. Accompanied by her best friend and two nerdy classmates, Wren needs to find her brother before her mom finds out.
Our read: Fun Size (2012) reads as a cosy, breathless, grounded comedy · coming-of-age entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, gentle comedy / coming-of-age, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, measured.
- cosy
- kinetic
- gentle
- intimate
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