Falling Up (2009) poster
2009 · comedy · drama · romance

Falling Up

Directed by David M. Rosenthal1h 38m2009
ElsewhereIMDb5.63k
  • warm
  • gentle
  • redemptive
  • tender
  • intimate
Movie DNA

Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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A nursing student forced to quit school for family reasons winds up taking a job as a doorman in an elite apartment building in New York City, where he sparks to one of his residents.

Our read · Falling Up (2009) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded comedy · drama · romance entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive 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 a sweet predictable romance between a doorman and penthouse girl.

ends warmyou’ll be fine aftersteady all the waygrips by minute 18attention 2/5feels its length
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around

Skip it tonightSkip if slow pacing or formulaic romance will bore you tonight.

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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