Goats

Goats

You can't choose your family...or can you?

Directed by Christopher Neil

Produced by Red Crown Productions, Sandia Media

201292 min5.5 / 10

A coming-of-age comedy about an unconventional teenager navigating the clash between his bohemian desert upbringing and the rigid expectations of East Coast prep school life.

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.

Questions people ask

  • Is Goats violent? Barely. Less violent than 86% of films.

  • Is Goats scary? Barely. Less frightening than 84% of films.

  • Is Goats easy watching? Somewhat. More comforting than 72% of films.

  • Does Goats end with hope? Somewhat. More hopeful than 65% of films.

  • Is Goats sad? About average. Almost exactly mid-range.

These describe how the film comes across, measured across the whole film and compared with other well-known films. They are not a content list — nothing here was counted or checked scene by scene, so for age-suitability or specific content use a classification board or a dedicated content-warning service.

17/ 100

Cinnamon Score

How much this film gives you that nothing else will, and whether it delivers.

Conventional, and it does not land.

Rarity52

How unlike any other film this one feels

Surprise6

How much more it delivers than it promises

Love8

How much audiences actually like it

The highest scores in the catalogue →

Ensemble

Like Goats

Nearest across the full emotional profile.

Same Mood as Goats

Nearest on what's most distinctive about this one.

Like Goats, But Darker

Similar, pushed toward heavier and more intense.

Like Goats, But Lighter

Similar, pushed toward warmer and easier.

Like Goats, But Less Popular

Same territory, far fewer people have seen it.

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