Shithouse
- warm
- gentle
- redemptive
- tender
- intimate
Warm, steady, gentle comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
How every film is hand-scored →Lonely college freshman Alex has closed himself off from his peers, who all appear to have this whole "college thing" figured out. But everything changes one night when Alex takes a leap and attends a party at Shithouse - a legendary party fraternity - where he forges a strong connection with Maggie.
Our read · Shithouse (2020) reads as a warm, steady, grounded comedy · drama · romance entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
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The shape of Shithouse
What watching it is actually like.
“You want tender college loneliness that turns into an honest late-night connection.”
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