Too Romantic (1992)

Directed by

Todd Field

Genre

drama

Country

United States

Runtime

30 min

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A fifteen-year-old boy goes on a road trip with his recently widowed grandmother. The story follows their journey together as they deal with loss.

intimatepoignantslow-pacedreflectiveunderstatedmelancholiccharacter-driven

What happens

Too Romantic is a 1992 dramatic short film that Todd Field created while a fellow at the AFI Conservatory. It was his directorial debut. It is a dramatic piece about a fifteen-year-old boy taking a road trip with his recently widowed grandmother. The piece is notable in that it was Field's first project as a writer/director and his first introduction to many of the collaborators he continued to work with on subsequent projects, including his Academy Award-nominated features In the Bedroom and Little Children. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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