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Wildlife

2018 · 105 min

Quietly devastating and watchful, like seeing your parents unravel through a child's helpless eyes, with a slow ache that lingers.

Overview: 14-year-old Joe is the only child of Jeanette and Jerry — a housewife and a golf pro — in a small town in 1960s Montana. Nearby, an uncontrolled forest fire rages close to the Canadian border, and when Jerry loses his job (and his sense of purpose) he decides to join the cause of fighting the fire, leaving his wife and son to fend for themselves.

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Tone: melancholicstrength 3 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
darkstrength 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
coming-of-age
betrayal
isolation
parenthood
Places: small town
home
countryside
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: None
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Scale	Value	0 to 10
Action	1
Horror	1
Humour	1
Realism	9
Romance	2
Tension	6
Darkness	6
Complexity	6
Emotional weight	8

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Genres: drama
Directed by: Paul Dano
Written by: Zoe Kazan, Paul Dano
Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Carey Mulligan, Ed Oxenbould, Zoe Colletti, Bill Camp, Travis W Bruyer, Tom Huston Orr, Darryl Cox
Music: David Lang
Cinematography: Diego García
Runtime: 105 min
Country: United States of America
Languages: English

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