2018 · comedy · coming-of-age · sports
Night School
Directed by Malcolm D. Lee1h 51m2018
Teddy Walker is a successful salesman whose life takes an unexpected turn when he accidentally blows up his place of employment. Forced to attend night school to get his GED, Teddy soon finds himself dealing with a group of misfit students, his former high school nemesis and a feisty teacher who doesn't think he's too bright.
Our read: Night School (2018) reads as a cosy, breathless, grounded comedy · coming-of-age · sports entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, gentle comedy / coming-of-age, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, measured.
- cosy
- kinetic
- gentle
- redemptive
- intimate
- funny
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How Night School feels to watch.
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What watching it is actually like.
“You want easy Kevin Hart classroom laughs without thinking hard.”
Skip it tonight — Repetitive pratfalls and a bloated runtime will grate on you.
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