2008 · comedy · drama · romance
Smother
Directed by Vince Di Meglio1h 32m2008
After he's fired from his job, an everyday guy faces pressure from his wife to have a baby and from his mom, who has decided to move in with the young couple.
Our read: Smother (2008) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded comedy · drama · romance entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- brisk
- gentle
- intimate
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