Underplayed Gems

A Cool, Dry Place (1999)

A Cool, Dry Place poster
Directed by
John N. Smith
Genre
drama film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 37m
Rated
PG-13
Rating
5.9 of 10 from 39 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A single father tries to balance his job and raising his young son after his wife leaves them. His life gets more complicated when his ex-wife wants to come back into their lives.

somberquietintrospectiverestrainedemotionally strainedgroundedwarm-adjacent

What happens

A Cool, Dry Place is a 1998 American drama film directed by John N. Smith and written by Matthew McDuffie, based on the 1996 novel Dance Real Slow by Michael Grant Jaffe. The film stars Vince Vaughn, Monica Potter, Joey Lauren Adams and Bobby Moat. It received a limited theatrical release in the United States on November 6, 1998, by 20th Century Fox. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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