2014 · comedy · heist
Not My Day
Directed by Peter Thorwarth1h 50m2014
When Banker Till (Axel Stein) is kidnapped during a bank robbery, he has the time of his life...
Our read: Not My Day (2014) reads as a warm, breathless, grounded comedy · heist entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, breathless, gentle comedy / heist, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- kinetic
- funny
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