2017 · action · comedy
Snatched
Directed by Jonathan Levine1h 30m2017
When her boyfriend dumps Emily, a spontaneous woman in her 30s, she persuades her ultra-cautious mom to accompany her on a vacation to Ecuador. When these two very different women are trapped on this wild journey, their bond as mother and daughter is tested and strengthened while they attempt to navigate the jungle and escape.
Our read: Snatched (2017) reads as a warm, breathless, grounded action · comedy entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, breathless, measured action / comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- warm
- kinetic
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