2011 · comedy · drama
The Dilemma
Directed by Ron Howard1h 51m2011
Longtime friends Ronny and Nick are partners in an auto-design firm. They are hard at work on a presentation for a dream project that would really launch their company. Then Ronny spots Nick's wife out with another man, and in the process of investigating the possible affair, he learns that Nick has a few secrets of his own. As the presentation nears, Ronny agonizes over what might happen if the truth gets out.
Our read: The Dilemma (2011) reads as a neutral, kinetic, grounded comedy · drama entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, kinetic, gentle comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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