Greener Grass (2019) poster
2019 · comedy · sports

Greener Grass

Directed by Jocelyn DeBoer, Dawn Luebbe1h 36m2019
ElsewhereIMDb6.46kRT83%Metacritic69
  • brisk
  • surreal
  • cold
  • intimate
  • funny
Movie DNA

Neutral, kinetic, gentle comedy / sports, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Suburban soccer moms find themselves constantly competing against each other in their personal lives as their kids settle their differences on the field.

Our read · Greener Grass (2019) reads as a neutral, kinetic, surreal comedy · sports entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic 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 absurdist suburban satire that gets darker and weirder by the minute.

ends unsettlingit stays with yousteady all the waygrips by minute 5attention 3/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upcringe humiliationchild peril

Skip it tonightYou need conventional plots or find surreal child swaps and gaslighting too unsettling.

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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