2019 · comedy · drama · supernatural
Poms
Directed by Zara Hayes1h 31m2019
After moving to a retirement community, loner Martha eventually befriends her fun-loving neighbor, Sheryl, and forms a cheerleading club for young-at-heart seniors, though they face roadblocks along the way.
Our read: Poms (2019) reads as a warm, steady, grounded comedy · drama · supernatural entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, steady, gentle comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, tender.
- warm
- gentle
- tender
- intimate
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“You want warm senior-citizen cheerleading underdog comfort with easy laughs.”
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