2023 · comedy · drama · coming-of-age
Wildflower
Directed by Matt Smukler1h 45m2023
The story of Bea Johnson from birth to graduation as she navigates life with an intellectually disabled parent and an extended family who can't quite agree on the best way to help.
Our read: Wildflower (2023) reads as a warm, steady, grounded comedy · drama · coming-of-age entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, steady, gentle comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
- warm
- gentle
- redemptive
- tender
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