Committed
2020 · 5m · USA
Directed by Crystal Arnette, Rachel Handler
Genres: comedy
Tones: humorous
A woman enlists a friend to sabotage a proposal so their friend group won't drift apart after a move to the suburbs.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
The premise is solid suburban-anxiety subversion, but it plays it safe—the sabotage angle could've gone genuinely weird, and instead we get a fairly conventional friend-group dramedy that doesn't quite earn its contrarian hook.
A nimble comedy that understands the rhythms of ensemble performance and builds its emotional stakes with the precision of someone who's watched how friendship films *should* work; the tonal balance between humor and melancholy feels considered and deliberate.
Arnette and Handler nail the specific moment where sabotage becomes genuine care—there's a single scene where the performance drops just enough that you see the real fear underneath the scheme, and that's the whole film right there.