2024 · comedy · thriller · parody
Self Reliance
Directed by Jake Johnson1h 31m2024
When a man is offered a million dollars to play a game in which hunters try to kill him, he thinks he has found the perfect loophole: they can only attack when he’s alone. His only problem is that none of his friends or family believe the game is real. Forced to seek companionship in unexpected places, he navigates the bizarre challenge with humor, paranoia, and a surprising search for connection.
Our read: Self Reliance (2024) reads as a warm, kinetic, inventive comedy · thriller · parody entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, measured comedy / thriller, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, tender.
- warm
- brisk
- funny
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