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Don't Come Knocking

2005 · 123 min

A quiet, reflective road movie that drifts through regret and longing, offering a slow, melancholic meditation on missed connections and the search for belonging.

Directed by: Wim Wenders
Genres: Drama, Western
Starring: Sam Shepard, Jessica Lange, Tim Roth

Overview: Howard Spence has seen better days. Once a big Western movie star, he now drowns his disgust for his selfish and failed life with alcohol, drugs and young women. If he were to die now, nobody would shed a tear over him, that's the sad truth. Until one day Howard learns that he might have a child somewhere out there...

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Directed by: Wim Wenders
Genres: Drama, Western
Starring: Sam Shepard, Jessica Lange, Tim Roth

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Tone: melancholicstrength 3 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
darkstrength 2 of 3
warmstrength 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: redemption
grief
identity
family
isolation
Places: small town
road trip
countryside
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Scale	Value	0 to 10
Action	2
Horror	0
Humour	3
Realism	8
Romance	3
Tension	4
Darkness	6
Complexity	6
Emotional weight	7

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Genres: drama, western
Directed by: Wim Wenders
Written by: Wim Wenders, Sam Shepard
Starring: Sam Shepard, Jessica Lange, Tim Roth, Gabriel Mann, Sarah Polley, Fairuza Balk, Eva Marie Saint, James Roday Rodriguez
Music: T Bone Burnett
Cinematography: Franz Lustig
Runtime: 123 min
Country: France, Germany, United Kingdom, United States of America
Languages: English

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