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The Boss Baby: Family Business (2021)
★ 7.3 · 2,681 ratings on TMDB
Playtime is over.
The Templeton brothers — Tim and his Boss Baby little bro Ted — have become adults and drifted away from each other. But a new boss baby with a cutting-edge approach and a can-do attitude is about to bring them together again … and inspire a new family business.
DirectorTom McGrath
The emergence reading
The Boss Baby: Family Business 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 family, corporate, childhood, authority, technology.
zero-distanceUSfamilycorporatechildhoodauthoritytechnology
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
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The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
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