Jerry & Marge Go Large
- warm
- brisk
- gentle
Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →The remarkable true story of how retiree Jerry Selbee discovers a mathematical loophole in the Massachusetts lottery and, with the help of his wife, Marge, wins $27 million dollars and uses the money to revive their small Michigan town.
Our read · Jerry & Marge Go Large (2022) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded comedy · drama entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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The shape of Jerry & Marge Go Large
What watching it is actually like.
“You want a gentle true-story caper about retirees beating the odds together.”
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