2009 · comedy · drama
Shrink
Directed by Jonas Pate1h 44m2009
Unable to cope with a recent personal tragedy, LA's top celebrity shrink turns into a pothead with no concern for his appearance and a creeping sense of his inability to help his patients.
Our read: Shrink (2009) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded comedy · drama entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, gentle comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- sombre
- gentle
- intimate
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