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A Week Alone (2008)
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Original name: Una semana solos
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Maria is a girl in her early teens whose family lives in an upscale gated suburb. Maria's parents are going out of town for a week, and rather than leave her with relatives or hire a babysitter, Maria is put in charge of looking after her little sister Sofia, with housekeeper Esther serving as a nominal adult authority figure, though for the most part she lets Maria and the others do what they please. With only their parents bedroom off-limits, Maria and Sofia have the run of the house, and soon they and their friends Facundo, Quique, Rodrigo and Timmy are spending their days exploring the place. As the kids begin creating their own rules to run counter to the ones their absent parents set down, Esther brings a young relative, Fernando, to play with them, and the privileged kids begin to get a notion of they ways of the outside world.
Style:
serious, realistic, disturbing, erotic, sexy, sexual
Audience:
adult
Plot:
youth, juvenile delinquency, social decay, family relations, teenage life, social differences, society, family problems, mischievous children, social misfits, children, suburbs, countryside, innocence lost, siblings relations, when the parents are away, teenager, neighborhood, home alone, classism, crimes, female director
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
argentina
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and sincere films with plots about youth, family relations, teenage life, society, family problems, coming of age and parents and children mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like A Week Alone: Gummo (1997), Two Shots Fired (2014), Man in the Chair (2007), The Third Side of the River (2014), Future Weather (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Story:
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Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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