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The Wasted Years

40 min

A quiet, talky indie that drifts through student lives like a documentary, asking you to lean in and listen.

Genres
Drama
Starring
Johnny Guzman Sanchez, Stephen Sorg
Overview
Five college sophomores, each struggling with their own identity, find themselves at the same party one night. As she watches the life changing events unfold, a mysterious filmmaker decides to make a film based on them. In order to remain anonymous, the filmmaker has a writer conduct interviews with the college students; these interviews drive the story.

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Genres
Drama
Starring
Johnny Guzman Sanchez, Stephen Sorg
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How it feels

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 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
  • identity
  • coming-of-age
  • isolation
  • art
  • friendship
Places
  • school
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
  • ensemble
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror1
Humour2
Realism7
Romance3
Tension3
Darkness5
Complexity6
Emotional weight6

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Starring
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Runtime
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