2008 · adventure · drama · survival
One Week
Directed by Michael McGowan1h 34m2008
Ben Tyler has been diagnosed with cancer. With a grim chance of survival in the best case scenario even if he immediately begins treatment, he instead decides to take a motorcycle trip from Toronto through the Canadian prairies to British Columbia.
Our read: One Week (2008) reads as a warm, measured, grounded adventure · drama · survival entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, measured, gentle adventure / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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- gentle
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