The Stand In
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Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →When ordered to serve a year in rehab, actress Candy hires her on-set stand-in to take her place. The unassuming woman flips the script and steals her identity, career and boyfriend in this hilarious comedy about trading places.
Our read · The Stand In (2020) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded comedy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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