Structure Breakdown: Manchester by the Sea

Script Genius
5 min readOct 1, 2020

Kenneth Lonergan’s first writing/directing outing since 2011, Manchester by the Sea is a universal tale grief in which being your brother’s keeper includes all of the big and little baggage we leave behind for our loved ones to care for, to mend, and ultimately to preserve.

LOGLINE: A troubled janitor must return, permanently, to a town that holds painful memories for him in order to raise

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