Harry and Tonto
- warm
- gentle
- tender
- intimate
Warm, steady, gentle drama / road, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →Harry Coombes is a retired teacher in his 70s who has lived in the Upper West Side of New York City all his life. When his building is torn down to make way for a parking garage, Harry and his beloved cat Tonto begin a journey across the United States — visiting his children, seeing a world he never seemed to have the time to see before, making new friends, and saying goodbye to old friends.
Our read · Harry and Tonto (1974) reads as a warm, steady, grounded drama · road · comedy 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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