2019 · comedy · sports
Greener Grass
Directed by Jocelyn DeBoer, Dawn Luebbe1h 36m2019
Suburban soccer moms find themselves constantly competing against each other in their personal lives as their kids settle their differences on the field.
Our read: Greener Grass (2019) reads as a neutral, kinetic, surreal comedy · sports entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Neutral, kinetic, gentle comedy / sports, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- brisk
- surreal
- cold
- intimate
- funny
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How Greener Grass feels to watch.
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“You want absurdist suburban satire that gets darker and weirder by the minute.”
Skip it tonight — You need conventional plots or find surreal child swaps and gaslighting too unsettling.
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