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2011 · drama · comedy · romance

Take Me Home

Directed by Sam Jaeger1h 37m2011
ElsewhereIMDb6.88k
  • cosy
  • brisk
  • gentle
  • redemptive
  • intimate
Movie DNA

Cosy, kinetic, gentle drama / comedy, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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In New York City, Thom is broke and jobless, illegally working as a taxi driver. Claire is a successful business-woman, but personally she's in shambles - then comes the phone call that her estranged father is in the hospital. Not knowing what to do, Claire hops in Thom's cab and orders him to just drive and so he does. They find themselves in Pennsylvania and Claire makes the rash decision to drive across the country to California. On the road, there are many detours as the obstacles and secrets force them to learn about themselves and each other.

Our read · Take Me Home (2011) reads as a cosy, kinetic, grounded drama · comedy · romance 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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What watching it is actually like.

You want a low-budget cross-country rom-com with second-chance sweetness.

ends warmyou’ll feel glowing aftersteady all the waygrips by minute 10attention 2/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around

Skip it tonightSkip if indie rom-com rough edges and predictable beats annoy you.

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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