2013 · drama · comedy
Nebraska
Directed by Alexander Payne1h 55m2013
An aging, booze-addled father takes a trip from Montana to Nebraska with his estranged son in order to claim what he believes to be a million-dollar sweepstakes prize.
Our read: Nebraska (2013) reads as a neutral, measured, grounded drama · comedy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, measured, gentle drama / comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- measured
- gentle
- intimate
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How Nebraska feels to watch.
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What watching it is actually like.
“You want a quiet black-and-white road movie about fathers, delusion, and dignity.”
Skip it tonight — You need plot momentum tonight; this drifts through small-town America slowly.
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