Movie

Plants

2016 · 93 min

A quiet, sunlit summer of caregiving and comic-book fantasy, tinged with loneliness and the strange ache of growing up.

Tagline: Do you think plants could have souls? That we might even be able to talk to them?
Overview: For a whole summer, 17-year-old Florencia has to look after her brother, who is trapped in a persistent vegetative state. From time to time she reads to him from a comic about plant souls that take control of human bodies at full moon.
How it feels: Melancholic, eerie, warm and whimsical. Slow-burning and needs your attention.
About: Coming-of-age, family, isolation, identity
Content: Mild sexual content and language. No violence or gore.
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Tone: melancholicstrength 2 of 3
eeriestrength 2 of 3
warmstrength 1 of 3
whimsicalstrength 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: coming-of-age
family
isolation
identity
grief
Places: home
big city
Era: contemporary
Audience: teen
Form: None
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence none
Sex mild