2012 · comedy · family · coming-of-age
Thunderstruck
Directed by John Whitesell1h 34m2012
After NBA star Kevin Durant switches talent with 16 year old Brian, the teenager becomes the star of his high school team, but Durant starts struggling and eventually learns an important lesson.
Our read: Thunderstruck (2012) reads as a cosy, breathless, grounded comedy · family · coming-of-age entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, gentle comedy / family, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, measured.
- cosy
- kinetic
- gentle
- redemptive
- intimate
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