Movie

Life After

2022 · 100 min

A quiet, song-soaked reckoning with loss that unfolds like memory itself, tender and searching rather than sentimental.

Overview: Frank Carter famously authored self-help books. But Alice, his 16-year-old daughter, finds cold comfort in his positivity platitudes when he tragically never comes home one night. As she puzzles out the events of the day that changed her family forever, Alice’s relentless search for the facts reveals a more complicated truth.
How it feels: Melancholic, earnest and tense. Measured and needs your attention.
About: Grief, family, identity, memory
Content: Mild sexual content and language. No violence or gore.
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Tone: melancholicstrength 3 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: grief
family
identity
memory
deception
Places: home
suburbs
Era: contemporary
Audience: teen
Form: nonlinear
musical
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence none
Sex mild