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Life as a House
Drama
When a man is diagnosed with terminal cancer, he takes custody of his misanthropic teenage son, for whom quality time means getting high, engaging in small-time prostitution, and avoiding his father.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who value emotionally direct family dramas about estrangement, mortality, and imperfect attempts at reconciliation.
- Tone
- sentimental, melancholic, bittersweet
- Payoff
- catharsis, heartbreak
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- moderate
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- family reconciliation, mortality, second chances, parent-child conflict, forgiveness
- Setting
- contemporary, coastal suburban California
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