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Pushing Past the Bad (2026)
Pushing Past the Bad (2026)
Overview
Pushing Past the Bad (2026) is an independent drama directed by Penny Allen. Pierre Philippe stars as Stann, who heads a troubled three-generation French family in the Mediterranean, supporting them through petty crime in an unstable world. Nelly Lawson portrays Gloria, the Black American woman whose secret marriage to Stann challenges family dynamics.
Starring Cast
Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Progressive
Political: Leans Left
Diversity: High
Family Values: Leans Progressive
Viewer Rating
Not Rated
Overview
Pushing Past the Bad (2026) is an independent drama directed by Penny Allen. Pierre Philippe stars as Stann, who heads a troubled three-generation French family in the Mediterranean, supporting them through petty crime in an unstable world. Nelly Lawson portrays Gloria, the Black American woman whose secret marriage to Stann challenges family dynamics.
Starring Cast
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Progressive
Primary
The film's central conflict revolves around an interracial marriage opposed by a prejudiced family, with the Black American wife's role as mediator promoting themes of racial acceptance and challenging traditional hierarchies.
Diverse casting places a Black actress in a pivotal romantic role alongside a white male lead. The narrative highlights familial opposition to interracial marriage based on race, framing traditional white family dynamics as racist and obstructive while elevating the Black woman's role as a transformative force.
Secondary
Multi-generational family dysfunction unfolds in a Mediterranean fable blending crime and romance, where a brutal patriarch's legacy yields to an interracial marriage and a woman's mediating role amid generational rupture. This subverts traditional authority and roles, favoring fluid structures over rigid norms.
The film contains no LGBTQ+ characters or themes, centering instead on a straight romance amid criminal family dynamics and personal struggles.
The film contains no depiction of transgender characters or themes, focusing instead on a dysfunctional family's struggles with crime and romance.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
Pushing Past the Bad presents an original story of a troubled French family led by Stann and his wife Gloria, with no source material, prior adaptations, or historical basis that would involve gender swaps for its characters.
Pushing Past the Bad presents original characters Gloria and Stann in a new story, with no established racial baselines from source material or prior adaptations, resulting in no race swaps.
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