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Documentary, Music  •  2021  •  64 min

Leave the Door Open (2021)

Leave the Door Open poster

Leave the Door Open (2021)

Rating & Dimensions

Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Political: Center
Diversity: Moderate
LGBTQ: Positive
Family Values: Leans Progressive
Viewer Rating
6.9

Overview

Feature documentary film "Leave The Door Open" is about how a love of Jazz led two young sons of a Turkish diplomat posted to Washington DC in the late 1930s and 1940s to smash through racial barriers and segregation.

Starring Cast

N/A

Detailed Bias Analysis

Analyzing...
Leans Progressive

Primary

Political: Center
Confidence: Medium

The film's central focus is on humanistic themes of memory, coexistence, and the personal relationships between individuals from different backgrounds, rather than promoting a specific political ideology. It documents a fading community and the bonds that remain, without advocating for partisan solutions or critiquing political systems.

Diversity: Moderate
Confidence: Low

The movie features a cast that provides visible diversity, consistent with its Turkish production origin, without explicit race or gender swaps of traditionally white roles. Its narrative, a horror/thriller about a young woman and a mysterious entity, does not appear to critically portray traditional identities or center explicit DEI themes.

Secondary

LGBTQ: Positive
Confidence: Medium

The film centrally features a daughter's same-sex relationship, which her mother discovers. The narrative explores themes of acceptance, personal truth, and family expectations, framing the challenges as external to the queer identity itself. The portrayal is empathetic, focusing on the potential for understanding and dignity in the face of societal or familial conflict.

Family Values: Leans Progressive
Confidence: Low

The film portrays a young woman's struggle against the deeply ingrained traditional family norms of her conservative village, highlighting the restrictive nature of expectations regarding marriage, gender roles, and parental authority.

Trans: N/A
Confidence: Medium

The film 'Leave the Door Open' centers on a young girl's experience adapting to a new life with her mother and her mother's new family. Based on available plot details and character information, the narrative does not include any identifiable transsexual characters or themes, resulting in no depiction within the story.

Female Combat: N/R

The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.

Gender Swap: No
Confidence: High

The film features original characters and is not an adaptation of existing material, a biopic, or a reboot of a prior franchise. Therefore, there are no pre-established characters whose gender could have been altered from a canonical or historical baseline.

Race Swap: No
Confidence: High

The film features original characters created for this specific production. There is no prior source material, historical record, or previous installment establishing a canonical race for any character that could then be altered.

Hinduism: N/A
Confidence: High

Not depicted in the film.

Viewer Rating Breakdown

6.9

Viewer Rating

Combines user and critic ratings from four sources

User Ratings

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6.7
The Movie Database logo
7.0

Critic Ratings

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N/A
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