2003 · adventure · comedy · crime
Kangaroo Jack
Directed by David McNally1h 29m2003
Two childhood friends — a New York hairstylist and a wanna-be musician — get mixed-up with the mob and are forced to deliver $50,000 to Australia, but things go all wrong when the money is lost to a wild kangaroo.
Our read: Kangaroo Jack (2003) reads as a cosy, breathless, grounded adventure · comedy · crime entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, gentle adventure / comedy, grounded in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender.
- cosy
- kinetic
- gentle
- redemptive
- tender
- funny
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