2008 · drama · family · comedy
The Longshots
Directed by Fred Durst1h 34m2008
The true story of Jasmine Plummer who, at the age of eleven, became the first female to play in Pop Warner football tournament in its 56-year history.
Our read: The Longshots (2008) reads as a cosy, kinetic, grounded drama · family · comedy entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, kinetic, gentle drama / family, grounded in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender.
- cosy
- brisk
- gentle
- redemptive
- tender
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