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2012 · comedy · drama · music

The Details

Directed by Jacob Aaron Estes1h 41m2012
ElsewhereIMDb6.110kRT45%Metacritic56
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Movie DNA

Neutral, kinetic, measured comedy / drama, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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When a family of raccoons discover worms living underneath the sod in Jeff and Nealy's backyard, this pest problem begins a darkly comic and wild chain reaction of domestic tension, infidelity and murder.

Our read · The Details (2012) reads as a neutral, kinetic, inventive comedy · drama · music entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic 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 suburban noir comedy where raccoons, affairs, and bad choices spiral darkly.

ends ambiguousit stays with yousteady all the waygrips by minute 12attention 3/5earns its length
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upanimal harmexplicit sexcringe humiliation

Skip it tonightSkip if adultery cringe, animal harm, or moral rot in comedy feel too sour.

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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