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People Like Us

2012 · 114 min

A quiet, emotionally rich drama about broken people finding each other, with a slow build to catharsis.

Directed by
Alex Kurtzman
Genres
Drama
Tagline
Find your family.
Overview
After flying home to L.A. for the funeral of his estranged record-producer father, a struggling man discovers that the will stipulates that he must deliver $150,000 in cash to a 30-year-old alcoholic sister he never knew existed, and her troubled 12-year-old son.

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Directed by
Alex Kurtzman
Genres
Drama
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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • family
  • grief
  • identity
  • redemption
  • healing
Places
  • big city
  • suburbs
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror0
Humour3
Realism8
Romance3
Tension4
Darkness5
Complexity6
Emotional weight8

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