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Dumplin' (2018)

★ 6.8 · 1,434 ratings on TMDB

Find out who you are and do it on purpose

Dumplin' poster★ 6.8

To prove a point about measuring up and fitting in, Texas teen Willowdean “Dumplin’” Dickson enters a local pageant run by her ex-beauty queen mom.

DirectorAnne Fletcher
CastBex Taylor-Klaus, Danielle Macdonald, Dove Cameron, Georgie Flores, Harold Perrineau, Jennifer Aniston
GenresComedy, Drama
The emergence reading

Dumplin' keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same rung, same subject

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

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Same subject, different rung

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

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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