2012 · comedy · action · drama
Here Comes the Boom
Directed by Frank Coraci1h 45m2012
A high school biology teacher moonlights as a mixed-martial arts fighter in an effort to raise money to save the school's music program.
Our read: Here Comes the Boom (2012) reads as a warm, breathless, grounded comedy · action · drama entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, breathless, measured comedy / action, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, tender.
- warm
- kinetic
- tender
- funny
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