The Wrong Track (2025) poster
2025 · comedy · drama · sports

The Wrong Track

Directed by Hallvar Witzø1h 34m2025
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  • warm
  • brisk
  • gentle
  • tender
Movie DNA

Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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When chaotic single mother Emilie hits a new low, she looks to her brother for help. He has a brilliant plan: to enter a cross-country ski marathon.

Our read · The Wrong Track (2025) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded comedy · drama · sports entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes 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 scrappy Norwegian comedy of a chaotic mom training for a ski marathon.

ends upliftingyou’ll be fine aftersteady all the waygrips by minute 12attention 2/5breezes bysubtitles: full
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
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Skip it tonightYou dislike sports redemption stories or raunchy family comedies.

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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