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Long Story Short

2021 · 90 min

A bittersweet romantic comedy that makes you laugh and ache as a man races through the years he can't hold onto.

Tagline
Love... blink and you'll miss it.
Overview
Teddy wakes up the morning after his wedding to discover that he's jumped forward a year in his life to his first anniversary. Trapped in an endless cycle of time jumps, transported another year ahead every few minutes, he is faced with a race against time as his life crumbles around him.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • romanticstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • whimsicalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • love
  • family
  • grief
  • redemption
  • memory
Places
  • big city
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror1
Humour6
Realism4
Romance7
Tension4
Darkness5
Complexity5
Emotional weight7

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Details

Genres
romance, comedy, fantasy
Directed by
Josh Lawson
Written by
Josh Lawson
Starring
Rafe Spall, Zahra Newman, Ronny Chieng, Dena Kaplan, Noni Hazlehurst, Josh Lawson
Cinematography
Matt Toll
Runtime
90 min
Country
Australia, France
Languages
English

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