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Love & Debt

2019 · 98 min

A gentle, talky domestic drama that mixes wry humour with quiet worry, asking you to care about ordinary people muddling through money trouble together.

Directed by
Valerie Landsburg
Genres
Drama, Comedy
Starring
Tom Cavanagh, Bellamy Young, Brynn Thayer
Overview
When you're up to neck in debt...it's not about the money. A drama full of the comedy of life. A story for our times that examines the durability of marriage and family, the price of telling the truth and discovering what matters most.

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Directed by
Valerie Landsburg
Genres
Drama, Comedy
Starring
Tom Cavanagh, Bellamy Young, Brynn Thayer
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Tone
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
  • lightstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • family
  • parenthood
  • love
  • class
  • morality
Places
  • suburbs
  • home
  • workplace
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour5
Realism8
Romance4
Tension4
Darkness3
Complexity4
Emotional weight6

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Genres
drama, comedy
Directed by
Valerie Landsburg
Written by
Dylan Otto
Starring
Tom Cavanagh, Bellamy Young, Brynn Thayer, Casey Abrams, Erick Avari, Ed Marinaro, Daryl Mitchell, Danny Mora
Music
Christopher Hayzel, James McVay
Cinematography
Jacek Laskus
Runtime
98 min
Country
United States of America
Languages
English

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