2020 · adventure · animation · comedy
The Willoughbys
Directed by Kris Pearn1h 32m2020
When the four Willoughby children are abandoned by their selfish parents, they must learn how to adapt their Old-Fashioned values to the contemporary world in order to create something new: The Modern Family.
Our read: The Willoughbys (2020) reads as a cosy, breathless, inventive adventure · animation · comedy entry — gentle in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, gentle adventure / animation, inventive in texture. Redemptive, epic, tender.
- cosy
- kinetic
- gentle
- inventive
- redemptive
- tender
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