
The Perfect Date
- cosy
- brisk
- gentle
- tender
Cosy, kinetic, gentle romance / comedy, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
How every film is hand-scored →No beau? No problem! To earn money for college, a high schooler creates a dating app that lets him act as a stand-in boyfriend.
Our read · The Perfect Date (2019) reads as a cosy, kinetic, grounded romance · comedy · coming-of-age entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.




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The shape of The Perfect Date
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The reading.
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