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Someone Marry Barry (2014) poster

2014 · comedy

Someone Marry Barry

Directed by Rob Pearlstein1h 26m2014

A trio of friends scheme to find a wife for their socially inappropriate friend Barry, and end up finding a girl just like him.

Our read: Someone Marry Barry (2014) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded comedy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.

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Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.

ElsewhereIMDb5.88kRT20%Metacritic52
  • warm
  • brisk
  • gentle
  • intimate
  • funny
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DNA · twelve axes

How Someone Marry Barry feels to watch.

Each axis is scored by hand, not from votes or genre averages. The bar uses the film's own colours.

MoodHeavy ↔ Cosy
PacingSlow-burn ↔ Kinetic
IntensityGentle ↔ Extreme
WeirdnessConventional ↔ Surreal
HopeNihilistic ↔ Redemptive
StakesIntimate ↔ Epic
HumourNone ↔ Broad
RealityGrounded ↔ Fantastical
DensitySparse ↔ Twisty
WarmthCold ↔ Tender
AuteurTransparent ↔ Signature
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“You enjoy loud, rude friend-group comedies about fixing an impossible bachelor.”

ends warmyou’ll be fine aftergrabs you earlygrips by minute 5attention 2/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upcringe humiliation

Skip it tonight — Obnoxious humiliation comedy will make you want to leave the room.

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