2020 · romance · comedy
Happiest Season
Directed by Clea DuVall1h 42m2020
A young woman's plans to propose to her girlfriend while at her family's annual holiday party are upended when she discovers her partner hasn't yet come out to her conservative parents.
Our read: Happiest Season (2020) reads as a cosy, kinetic, grounded romance · comedy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, kinetic, gentle romance / comedy, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
- cosy
- brisk
- gentle
- redemptive
- tender
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How Happiest Season feels to watch.
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What watching it is actually like.
“You want a holiday rom-com about coming out under family pressure.”
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