Clear History (2013) poster
2013 · comedy · tv-movie · revenge

Clear History

Directed by Greg Mottola1h 40m2013
ElsewhereIMDb6.420kRT59%
  • warm
  • brisk
  • gentle
  • intimate
  • funny
Movie DNA

Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy / tv-movie, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Nathan Flomm, in order to avoid the humiliation of having missed out on a hugely successful business, assumes a new identity on Martha's Vineyard. He plots revenge when his former business partner moves to the same town.

Our read · Clear History (2013) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded comedy · tv-movie · revenge entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want Larry David island misanthropy, petty revenge, and improvised cringe.

ends warmyou’ll be fine aftersteady all the waygrips from the openattention 3/5earns its length
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upcringe humiliationchild peril

Skip it tonightSkip if explosive mishaps and social humiliation comedy feel too uncomfortable.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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