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The Whale

2022 · Drama · Darren Aronofsky · 1h 57m

A housebound English teacher who weighs 600 pounds spends one week trying to reach the daughter he left years ago, while teaching his online classes with the camera off. It never leaves his flat and is nearly all conversation.

  • Strongly intimate
  • Strongly realistic
  • Strongly character-driven
  • Strongly heavy
  • Clearly slow

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