2008 · adventure · family · comedy
Spy School
Directed by Mark Blutman1h 26m2008
Spy School is the story of a twelve year old boy known for telling tall tales who overhears a plot to kidnap the President's daughter. When he goes public with his story, no one believes him, and he is forced to save her on his own.
Our read: Spy School (2008) reads as a cosy, breathless, grounded adventure · family · comedy entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, gentle adventure / family, grounded in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, measured.
- cosy
- kinetic
- gentle
- redemptive
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