2005 · comedy · drama · romance
Standing Still
Directed by Matthew Cole Weiss1h 30m2005
A chain reaction of confrontations and romantic encounters occurs when college friends reunite for one's wedding.
Our read: Standing Still (2005) 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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“You want an ensemble romcom-drama of old friends reuniting at a wedding.”
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