2019 · comedy · romance · music
Someone Great
Directed by Jennifer Kaytin Robinson1h 32m2019
An aspiring music journalist lands her dream job and is about to move to San Francisco when her boyfriend of nine years decides to call it quits. To nurse her broken heart, she and her two best friends spend one outrageous last adventure in New York City.
Our read: Someone Great (2019) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded comedy · romance · music entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy / romance, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
- warm
- brisk
- gentle
- redemptive
- intimate
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“You want a NYC best-friends night out after a brutal long-term breakup.”
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