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What Can't Be Mentioned

2026 · 62 min

A quiet, talky indie that asks you to lean in and sit with awkward, intimate conversations.

Directed by
Dan Sallitt
Genres
Drama, Comedy
Overview
14 years after Dan Sallitt’s The Unspeakable Act (2012), we catch up with Jackie, now a married therapist-in-training who attempts to resolve issues of sexual dysfunction with her husband before deciding to visit her brother and newly pregnant sister-in-law.
How it feels
Slow-burning and demanding.
About
Family, sexuality, identity, love
Content
Mild sexual content and language. No violence or gore.
Note
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Directed by
Dan Sallitt
Genres
Drama, Comedy
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How it feels

Written by AI. It can be wrong.

Full breakdown
Tone
    Pacing
    slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
    Attention
    demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
    Themes
    Places
    Era
    contemporary
    Audience
    adult
    Form
    None
    Content intensity
    • Gore none
    • Language mild
    • Violence none
    • Sex mild
    All scales, 0 to 10
    Scales, 0 to 10
    ScaleValue0 to 10
    Action0
    Horror0
    Humour3
    Realism8
    Romance4
    Tension3
    Darkness4
    Complexity7
    Emotional weight6

    Cast

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    Details

    Genres
    drama, comedy
    Directed by
    Dan Sallitt
    Written by
    Dan Sallitt
    Starring
    Tallie Medel, Sky Hirschkron, Kit Zauhar, Kyle McCormack, Strawn Bovee, Emmanuel Munoz Maldonado, C. Mason Wells, Lorelei Romani
    Cinematography
    Barton Cortright
    Runtime
    62 min
    Country
    United States of America
    Languages
    English, Spanish

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