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2016 · drama · comedy

Get a Job

Directed by Dylan Kidd1h 23m2016
ElsewhereIMDb5.327kMetacritic31
  • warm
  • brisk
  • gentle
  • intimate
Movie DNA

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

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Life after college graduation is not exactly going as planned for Will and Jillian who find themselves lost in a sea of increasingly strange jobs. But with help from their family, friends and coworkers they soon discover that the most important (and hilarious) adventures are the ones that we don't see coming.

Our read · Get a Job (2016) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded drama · comedy 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're a recent grad wanting breezy comedy about résumés and parental nagging.

ends upliftingyou’ll be fine aftersteady all the waygrips by minute 8attention 2/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upcringe humiliation

Skip it tonightYou already lived this; it's thin and mostly forgettable.

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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