The Trouble with Bliss

The Trouble with Bliss

Find your bliss. Then follow it.

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Release Date

10/1/2011

Runtime

97 mins

Overview

35-year-old Morris Bliss is clamped in the jaws of New York City inertia: he wants to travel but has no money, he needs a job but has no prospects, he still shares an apartment with his widowed father, and the premature death of his mother has left him emotionally walled up. When he finds himself wrapped up in an awkward relationship with Stephanie, the 18-year-old daughter of a former classmate, Morris quickly discovers his static life unraveling and opening up in ways that are long overdue.

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

-

Revenue

$11,933

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A tender, quietly funny portrait of arrested development and emotional thaw, where a stalled 35-year-old discovers that real change often arrives awkwardly and unexpectedly. The film sits patiently with its protagonist's inertia before gently disrupting it, asking what it takes to truly begin living again.

Mood

WistfulBittersweetContemplative

Themes

Coming of ageGriefIdentityFamily

Tone

Tender

Pacing

Meditative

Look

NaturalisticDocumentary-like

Structure

Single location

Heads up

Sexual content

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