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Recent Examples of dramedy
Director Jim Jarmusch’s Father Mother Sister Brother ($5 in the MFL) won the top prize at Venice, but there’s nevertheless an enduring sense that the family dramedy starring Adam Driver, Cate Blanchett, and Vicky Krieps will be too small for awards season.
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Joe Reid, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2025
Though no murder actually occurs in The Favourite, a sapphic social-climbing dramedy from Yorgos Lanthimos, that doesn’t mean that murderous intent is any less pronounced.
—Mathew Rodriguez, Them., 23 Sep. 2025
This year’s Best Picture winner Anora could be classified as a romantic dramedy of sorts, and other recent noms in the category, like American Fiction, Barbie and winner Everything Everywhere all at Once, certainly have humorous throughlines.
—Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 21 Sep. 2025
His partner in their shingle La Union de los Rios, Agustina Llambi-Campbell, is also a producer of this topical dramedy.
—Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 19 Sep. 2025
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Joe Reid, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2025
Though no murder actually occurs in The Favourite, a sapphic social-climbing dramedy from Yorgos Lanthimos, that doesn’t mean that murderous intent is any less pronounced.
—Mathew Rodriguez, Them., 23 Sep. 2025
This year’s Best Picture winner Anora could be classified as a romantic dramedy of sorts, and other recent noms in the category, like American Fiction, Barbie and winner Everything Everywhere all at Once, certainly have humorous throughlines.
—Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 21 Sep. 2025
His partner in their shingle La Union de los Rios, Agustina Llambi-Campbell, is also a producer of this topical dramedy.
—Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 19 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dramedy
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Last year, comedy vlogger Nathan Graham—whose YouTube channel Unspeakable Studios boasts nearly three and a half million subscribers—recorded a video of the entire process.—
Amelia McBride,
Travel + Leisure,
28 Sep. 2025
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An early success was Matt Spicer’s dark comedy Ingrid Goes West (acquired via CAA).—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
28 Sep. 2025
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This was the run that was supposed to make up for that tragicomedy of errors.—
Ian O'Connor,
New York Times,
1 Oct. 2025
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The longtime friends put their chemistry to good use in the latest revival of Samuel Beckett's tragicomedy.—
Shania Russell,
Entertainment Weekly,
29 Sep. 2025
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Italy has picked Francesco Costabile’s dark melodrama Familia as its Oscar contender for the 2026 Academy Awards in the best international feature film category.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
23 Sep. 2025
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Characters archly comment on proceedings directly to camera at some points and retreat into the staid distance of historical drama at others, as passages of seemingly earnest melodrama crash abruptly into broad-brush contemporary satire.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
20 Sep. 2025
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How that psychodrama played out in the UK could have lessons for the US — not least because Cummings eventually succeeded in undermining Johnson’s political career, ultimately defenestrating the prime minister through relentless briefings and leaks.—
Jim Waterson,
semafor.com,
6 June 2025
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And there are many things that people can actually do to get this transcendence, to get away from the tedium of the psychodrama of your own life.—
NBC News,
NBC news,
25 May 2025
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The iconic musical played at the Bellevue for three years in the mid-1960s.—
Andrew McGowan,
Variety,
26 Sep. 2025
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The performers in the touring casts of Broadway musicals often follow strikingly similar paths from high school to hit show — hours spent practicing show tunes with vocal coaches, years of dance classes, roles in a dozen amateur musical theater productions.—
Jed Gottlieb,
Boston Herald,
21 Sep. 2025
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Flags typically fly at half-staff after national tragedies or deaths of government officials, military members or other first responders.—
Ridah Syed,
jsonline.com,
27 Sep. 2025
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The gulf between who Nelson really might be and how an aggregate of cultures—Colombian, American, capitalist, masculine—has molded him is the source of the play’s tragedy.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
26 Sep. 2025
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The actress has also switched more to writing and directing, creating Nickelodeon's musical comedy series The Naked Brothers Band — which starred her and husband Michael Wolff's two sons, Nat and Alex Wolff — and the 2018 film Stella's Last Weekend, among others.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
Entertainment Weekly,
29 Sep. 2025
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The 1975 musical comedy starring Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon and Barry Bostwick was produced by Lou Adler and Michael White, directed by Jim Sharman and distributed by then 20th Century Fox (now owned by Disney).—
Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
26 Sep. 2025
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“Dramedy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dramedy. Accessed 5 Oct. 2025.
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