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Chlorine

Name: Chlorine
Director: Jay Alaimo
Released: 2013
Duration: 93 min

Representation Score

2.7/10

Limited

2013

Director

Jay Alaimo

Runtime

93 minutes

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Chlorine is a character-driven domestic drama that emphasizes socioeconomic tension over diverse representation. The plot focuses on a middle-class family's moral struggles during an economic housing boom, keeping the narrative within a narrow social scope. The film lacks significant representation of underrepresented identities, focusing instead on a traditional nuclear family unit. While it explores the corruption of capitalism, it does so through a conventional lens that reinforces established social hierarchies rather than challenging them.

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Category Breakdown

Does Chlorine have LGBTQ+ representation?

Limited

The story centers on a marriage between Roger and Georgie, assuming both are straight and cisgender. There are no LGBTQ+ characters or non-cisgender identities present.

How does Chlorine portray gender?

Fair

Georgie plays a key role in driving the plot forward, showing strong influence over the protagonist's decisions. However, the conflict revolves around typical domestic tensions.

How racially and ethnically diverse is Chlorine?

Limited

The country club setting suggests a focus on upper-middle-class families. The cast appears to represent a homogeneous social hierarchy without much diversity.

How does Chlorine represent religion and culture?

Fair

The film critiques Western capitalist ideals and moral relativism through the pursuit of wealth. It frames these themes within traditional values of family preservation and upward mobility.

Does Chlorine include disability representation?

Minimal

The narrative does not feature characters dealing with physical, neurodivergent, or mental health disabilities.

Present on Screen

Georgie drives the plot forward with strong influence over the protagonist's decisions.

Limited or Absent

The film lacks racial and ethnic diversity, focusing on a homogeneous social class.
There is no representation of LGBTQ+ characters or non-cisgender identities.
The narrative does not include characters navigating physical or mental disabilities.

Official Synopsis

In the town of Copper Canyon, people are cashing in on an economic housing boom, and the local country club is buzzing about the investment opportunity. Once vivacious couple, Roger (Vincent D'Onofrio) and Georgie (Kyra Sedgwick), have settled into a complacent lifestyle of mediocrity where their marriage is falling apart and their children are turning away from them. Nonetheless, the desperately discontent Georgie pushes Roger into finding a way to invest in the market bubble in the hopes that their family can be saved with the money they are sure to make. When local tennis pro and part-time drug dealer, Pat (Rhys Coiro), comes to Roger for investment advice, Roger sees his opportunity. Torn by the reality that his family could be saved by this dirty money, Roger finds himself staring down the barrel of a moral conundrum.

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