2018 · drama · comedy
Thunder Road
Directed by Jim Cummings1h 30m2018
A police officer faces a personal meltdown following a divorce and the death of his mother.
Our read: Thunder Road (2018) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded drama · comedy entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, steady, measured drama / comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- sombre
- intimate
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