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2019 · comedy · family · disaster · music

Father There Is Only One

Directed by Santiago Segura1h 36m2019
ElsewhereIMDb6.04k
  • cosy
  • brisk
  • gentle
  • redemptive
  • tender
  • intimate
Movie DNA

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

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Javier is what we have dubbed as a "husband-in-law." That is that without taking care of the care of the house and children at all, he knows exactly what needs to be done, and that he continuously collects a sum of sentences from the type: "It is that you do not organize", or "do not get nervous", you already consider that overflowing woman drowns in a glass of water. Javier will have to face the reality of dealing with five children (between four and twelve years old) when his wife decides to go on a trip and leave him alone with them. The chaotic situation that takes place at home will progressively evolve ecologically to the most absolute disaster, but at the same time it will give parents and children the opportunity to meet and enjoy themselves for the first time.

Our read · Father There Is Only One (2019) reads as a cosy, kinetic, grounded comedy · family · disaster 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 broad Spanish family comedy of dad solo with five wild kids.

ends warmyou’ll be fine aftera rollercoastergrips by minute 5attention 2/5breezes bysubtitles: full
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around

Skip it tonightSkip if slapstick parenting disasters and loud kids annoy you.

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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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