I Love You, Beth Cooper (2009) poster
2009 · comedy · romance · coming-of-age

I Love You, Beth Cooper

Directed by Chris Columbus1h 42m2009
ElsewhereIMDb5.339kRT14%Metacritic32
  • warm
  • brisk
  • gentle
  • intimate
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Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy / romance, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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A valedictorian's declaration of love for a high-school cheerleader launches a night of revelry, reflection and romance for a group of graduating seniors.

Our read · I Love You, Beth Cooper (2009) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded comedy · romance · coming-of-age 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 want a goofy graduation-night teen comedy with cheerleader fantasy energy.

ends warmyou’ll be fine aftergrabs you earlygrips by minute 4attention 2/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upnuditycringe humiliation

Skip it tonightSkip if cringey high-school humiliation and thin jokes will annoy you.

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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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