2015 · comedy · drama · family
The Great Gilly Hopkins
Directed by Stephen Herek1h 39m2015
Young and feisty Gilly Hopkins devises a scheme to escape from her new foster home and reunite with her birth mother.
Our read: The Great Gilly Hopkins (2015) reads as a cosy, kinetic, grounded comedy · drama · family entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, kinetic, gentle comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
- cosy
- brisk
- gentle
- redemptive
- tender
- intimate
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