2014 · drama · comedy
The Skeleton Twins
Directed by Craig Johnson1h 32m2014
Estranged twins Maggie and Milo coincidentally cheat death on the same day, prompting them to reunite and confront the reasons their lives went so wrong. As the twins' reunion reinvigorates them, they realize the key to fixing their lives may just lie in repairing their relationship.
Our read: The Skeleton Twins (2014) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded drama · comedy entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured drama / comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- sombre
- intimate
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