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Mark Poirier’s Typical Vibe
Signature vibe
measuredbittersweetmoderateapproachable
Highest-ranked title
Mark Poirier has 3 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2010s.
Recurring themes
Professor Lawrence Wetherhold might be imperiously brilliant, monumentally self-possessed and an intellectual giant -- but when it comes to solving the conundrums of love and family, he's as downright flummoxed as the next guy.
Dir. Noam Murro · With Dennis Quaid, Sarah Jessica Parker, Thomas Haden Church
Having a self-absorbed New Age mother and an estranged father has meant 15-year-old Ellis Whitman has grown up relying on an unconventional guardian: a goat-trekking, marijuana-growing sage called 'Goat Man'. When Ellis decides to leave the alternative ways of his desert homestead for a stuffy East Coast prep school, major changes are in store.
Dir. Christopher Neil · With David Duchovny, Vera Farmiga, Graham Phillips
A shy caretaker believes that the father of her teenage charge is falling in love with her, unaware that she is actually the victim of the girl's prank.
Dir. Liza Johnson · With Kristen Wiig, Guy Pearce, Hailee Steinfeld