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Noelle (2019)

★ 6.6 · 745 ratings on TMDB

Saving Christmas together? Oh, joy.

Noelle poster★ 6.6

Kris Kringle's daughter, Noelle, sets off on a mission to find and bring back her brother, after he gets cold feet when it's his turn to take over as Santa.

DirectorMarc Lawrence
CastAnna Kendrick, Anthony Konechny, Bill Hader, Billy Eichner, Diana Maria Riva, Julie Hagerty
GenresComedy, Family, Fantasy
The emergence reading

Noelle keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing tradition, gender, identity, authority, family.

zero-distanceUStraditiongenderidentityauthorityfamily
Also inFilms about familyFilms about identity
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Same rung, same subject

Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.

Brave (2012)E8/E9/E10 · authority, familyThe Lion King (1994)E8/E9/E10 · authority, familyHop (2011)E8/E9/E10 · authority, familyThor (2011)E8/E9/E10 · authority, identityHarry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)E8/E9/E10 · authority, identityThe Lion King (2019)E8/E9/E10 · authority, family

Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

TMNT (2007)E6/E11 · rare rung · family, identity

Same people

Shared director or cast.

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