2009 · comedy · drama
Paper Man
Directed by Kieran Mulroney, Michele Mulroney1h 50m2009
A coming-of-middle-age comedy that chronicles the unlikely friendship between failed author Richard Dunne and a Long Island teen who teaches him a thing or two about growing up, all under the disapproving eye of his long-suffering wife and his imaginary Superhero friend.
Our read: Paper Man (2009) reads as a neutral, steady, inventive comedy · drama entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, steady, gentle comedy / drama, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- gentle
- intimate
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