2009 · comedy
House Broken
Directed by Sam Harper1h 24m2009
In order to enjoy his retirement, a father takes drastic measures to get his twentysomething, slacker sons to move out and fend for themselves.
Our read: House Broken (2009) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded comedy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- brisk
- gentle
- intimate
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