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A Kid Like Jake
Drama
On the eve of the admissions cycle for New York City kindergartens, Alex and Greg Wheeler have high hopes for four-year-old Jake. The director of Jake's preschool encourages them to accentuate Jake's gender expansive behavior to help him stand out. As Alex and Greg navigate their roles as parents, a rift grows between them, one that forces them to confront their own concerns about what's best for Jake, and each other.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who appreciate intimate relationship dramas about parenting, identity, and the pressures of competitive institutions.
- Tone
- contemplative, melancholic, bittersweet
- Payoff
- reflection, catharsis
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- moderate
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- parenthood, gender identity, educational inequality, marital strain, belonging
- Setting
- contemporary, affluent urban neighborhood and preschool community
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