The Baltimorons (2025) poster
2025 · comedy · drama · romance

The Baltimorons

Directed by Jay Duplass1h 41m2025
ElsewhereIMDb6.94kRT93%Metacritic75
  • warm
  • gentle
  • tender
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Warm, steady, gentle comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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A newly sober man's Christmas Eve dental emergency leads to an unexpected romance with his older dentist as they explore Baltimore together.

Our read · The Baltimorons (2025) reads as a warm, steady, grounded comedy · drama · 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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You want a heartfelt indie romcom about recovery, chance connection and Baltimore on Christmas Eve.

ends warmyou’ll feel glowing aftergrabs you earlygrips by minute 5attention 2/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upsuicide themedrug use

Skip it tonightSkip if suicide attempts or addiction recovery stories feel too raw tonight.

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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