2016 · comedy · coming-of-age
Good Kids
Directed by Chris McCoy1h 26m2016
Four high school students look to redefine themselves after graduation.
Our read: Good Kids (2016) 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.
- warm
- kinetic
- gentle
- intimate
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“You want a breezy post-grad party comedy about reinventing your social self.”
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