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Get a Job (2016) poster

2016 · drama · comedy

Get a Job

Directed by Dylan Kidd1h 23m2016

Life after college graduation is not exactly going as planned for Will and Jillian who find themselves lost in a sea of increasingly strange jobs. But with help from their family, friends and coworkers they soon discover that the most important (and hilarious) adventures are the ones that we don't see coming.

Our read: Get a Job (2016) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded drama · comedy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.

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Warm, kinetic, gentle drama / comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.

ElsewhereIMDb5.327kMetacritic31
  • warm
  • brisk
  • gentle
  • intimate
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DNA · twelve axes

How Get a Job feels to watch.

Each axis is scored by hand, not from votes or genre averages. The bar uses the film's own colours.

MoodHeavy ↔ Cosy
PacingSlow-burn ↔ Kinetic
IntensityGentle ↔ Extreme
WeirdnessConventional ↔ Surreal
HopeNihilistic ↔ Redemptive
StakesIntimate ↔ Epic
HumourNone ↔ Broad
RealityGrounded ↔ Fantastical
DensitySparse ↔ Twisty
WarmthCold ↔ Tender
AuteurTransparent ↔ Signature
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“You're a recent grad wanting breezy comedy about résumés and parental nagging.”

ends upliftingyou’ll be fine aftersteady all the waygrips by minute 8attention 2/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upcringe humiliation

Skip it tonight — You already lived this; it's thin and mostly forgettable.

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