2018 · comedy · sports
Uncle Drew
Directed by Charles Stone III1h 43m2018
Uncle Drew recruits a squad of older basketball players to return to the court to compete in a tournament.
Our read: Uncle Drew (2018) reads as a cosy, breathless, grounded comedy · sports entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, gentle comedy / sports, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
- cosy
- kinetic
- gentle
- redemptive
- tender
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