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Burning Bridges

1996 · 29 min

A bleak, slow-burn character study of damaged lives finding fleeting connection amid industrial decay and abuse.

Directed by
Marcus Hahn
Genres
Drama
Starring
Pedro Pascal, Sarah Graham Hayes, Matthew Dixon
Overview
Jeremy is on the run to nowhere kicked out of yet another boarding school, he faces the unpleasant prospect of another holiday eternity with his manipulative father and drug numbed mother. While Jeremy wanders the barren factory landscape of Newark, New Jersey, he stumbles unexpectedly into Kara's world; a life laden with dead end factory work and her husband Bruce's relentless abuse. After narrowly escaping Bruce's attempted kidnapping, Kara and Jeremy find uncompromised intimacy.

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Directed by
Marcus Hahn
Genres
Drama
Starring
Pedro Pascal, Sarah Graham Hayes, Matthew Dixon
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Tone
  • bleakstrength 3 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • isolation
  • trauma
  • family
  • survival
  • addiction
Places
  • big city
  • workplace
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror1
Humour1
Realism8
Romance3
Tension6
Darkness8
Complexity5
Emotional weight8

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Marcus Hahn
Written by
Brian David Cange, Marcus Hahn
Starring
Pedro Pascal, Sarah Graham Hayes, Matthew Dixon
Runtime
29 min
Languages
English

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