Like Sunday, Like Rain (2014) poster
2014 · drama · music

Like Sunday, Like Rain

Directed by Frank Whaley1h 44m2014
ElsewhereIMDb6.95kRT47%Metacritic43
  • warm
  • measured
  • gentle
  • tender
  • intimate
Movie DNA

Warm, measured, gentle drama / music, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, tender, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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A struggling musician becomes a 12-year-old musical prodigy's guardian for a summer.

Our read · Like Sunday, Like Rain (2014) reads as a warm, measured, grounded drama · music entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender 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 gentle New York drama about an unlikely friendship between a nanny and a young cello prodigy.

ends bittersweetit stays with youa slow buildgrips by minute 18attention 3/5earns its length
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around

Skip it tonightSkip if quiet slow-burn character studies without big plot will bore 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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