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2018 · comedy · supernatural · coming-of-age

The Package

Directed by Jake Szymanski1h 34m2018
ElsewhereIMDb5.624kRT37%
  • warm
  • brisk
  • gentle
Movie DNA

Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy / supernatural, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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When a group of teenagers goes on a spring break camping trip, an unfortunate accident sets off a race to save their friend’s most prized possession.

Our read · The Package (2018) reads as a warm, kinetic, inventive comedy · supernatural · coming-of-age entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes 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 gross-out spring-break buddy comedy with one ridiculous crisis.

ends warmyou’ll be fine aftersteady all the waygrips by minute 3attention 2/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upnuditycringe humiliationdrug use

Skip it tonightYou are squeamish about genital injury jokes or teen-party cringe humor.

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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