Just Add Water
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Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →An offbeat romantic comedy about a decent guy, Ray Tuckby, with a dead-end life in the dead-end town of Trona, CA. After encouragement from a stranger whom he happens upon, Ray begins to dream again. He sheds the parasites in his life, musters the nerve to pursue his childhood love, and finally takes back his community by toppling the local teenage Meth-baron.
Our read · Just Add Water (2008) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded comedy · drama · revenge entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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