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Short Term 12 (2013)

Drama | 96 minutes
3,57 568 votes

Genre: Drama

Duration: 96 minuten

Country: United States

Directed by: Destin Daniel Cretton

Stars: Brie Larson, John Gallagher Jr. and Kaitlyn Dever

IMDb score: 7,9 (95.022)

Releasedate: 23 August 2013

Short Term 12 plot

"Support them. Take care of them. But don't become their friend."

Grace is a young woman who is active in child welfare. She works with her boyfriend Mason in a home for out-of-home youth. This tough job puts her relationship, her past and her future under pressure.

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Insignificance

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Weeping willow in an indie sauce with problem children and problem counselors. Certainly Grace is at least as unstable as the kids, but I can't do anything with such a Mason. The ultimate wimp the way he behaves in his relationship. You almost get euphoric when he finally bites off, but he bounces back just as hard.

It's already too sticky and then you also get scenes like the one with his family and the echo over it. Penetrant sentiment surrounding slippery characters in a film that is increasingly showing scripted traits and is unstoppable in terms of sniffling and whining. Cretton really does everything twice.

Where that rap in itself still works, the sting is out in this way during the children's story, but Jayden's role smothers in the trammelt around Grace anyway. Quite an odd choice given the setting and Cretton's own experiences, but good. His soft lock is the icing on this goat wool sock pie.

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eRCee

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I don't think it is possible to imagine a much rosier picture of child and youth care. Above all, the sheer goodness of the main characters and the way in which they as individuals can make a difference in the lives of others, that is romanticization on a gross scale. Like JJ_D I find it difficult that both Grace and Mason also have a history in that world themselves. This, of course, serves as an illustration of the idea that one good deed leads to another. Finally, it is noticeable that, despite all the traumas and sometimes outbursts, the children are all of the "rough shell, white pit" type, who eventually let themselves be helped. Personality disorders or real psychiatry are simply disregarded.

Well, it seems like one big litany (and I haven't even mentioned the Baywatch-esque final shot!), but it is effective feel-good as far as I'm concerned. You can simply sit back and let yourself be carried away in this illusionary world full of good souls, sometimes nice.

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GoodOldJack

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Heavy subject that for the most part of the film manages to contain too little of the heaviness of the subject imo but goes "full out" in the last part, which makes sure that I thought this was a very well made film that here and there some sledgehammer blows, possibly without leaving you really knocked out. The best scene in the movie is by far the car scene for me.

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