2020 · comedy · drama · supernatural
Half Brothers
Directed by Luke Greenfield1h 36m2020
Mexican aviation exec Renato is shocked to learn that he has an American half-brother he never knew about: free-spirited Asher. They are forced on a road trip together, tracing the path their father took from Mexico to the U.S.
Our read: Half Brothers (2020) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded comedy · drama · supernatural entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- brisk
- gentle
- intimate
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