2013 · comedy · parody
The Starving Games
Directed by Jason Friedberg, Aaron Seltzer1h 23m2013
In this Hunger Games spoof, Kantmiss Evershot must fight for her life in the 75th annual Starving Games, where she could also win an old ham, a coupon for a foot-long sub, and a partially eaten pickle.
Our read: The Starving Games (2013) reads as a warm, breathless, inventive comedy · parody entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, breathless, gentle comedy / parody, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, cold.
- warm
- kinetic
- gentle
- cold
- funny
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