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Safelight

2015 · 84 min

A gentle, bittersweet road movie that lingers on quiet moments of connection and healing amid hardship.

Directed by
Tony Aloupis
Genres
Drama
Tagline
To find their future, they had to escape their past...
Overview
A teenage boy and girl discover a renewed sense of possibility as they go on a road trip to photograph lighthouses along the California coast.

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Directed by
Tony Aloupis
Genres
Drama
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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 1 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • coming-of-age
  • trauma
  • friendship
  • love
  • healing
Places
  • road trip
  • small town
  • countryside
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror1
Humour3
Realism8
Romance5
Tension4
Darkness5
Complexity4
Emotional weight7

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Genres
drama
Directed by
Tony Aloupis
Written by
Tony Aloupis
Starring
Evan Peters, Juno Temple, Christine Lahti, Kevin Alejandro, Jason Beghe, Ariel Winter, Will Peltz, Don Stark
Cinematography
Gavin Kelly
Runtime
84 min
Country
United States of America
Languages
English

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