The Clique (2008) poster
2008 · comedy · drama · family

The Clique

Directed by Michael Lembeck1h 27m2008
ElsewhereIMDb5.26k
  • cosy
  • brisk
  • gentle
  • intimate
Movie DNA

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

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A young girl tries to fit in with a clique of popular middle school girls after moving into the guest house of one of their homes.

Our read · The Clique (2008) reads as a cosy, kinetic, grounded comedy · drama · family entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured 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 light teen story about navigating middle school popularity and cliques.

ends warmyou’ll be fine aftersteady all the waygrips by minute 10attention 2/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upcringe humiliation

Skip it tonightYou dislike mean-girl social dynamics and teen drama.

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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