This movie is about three lifelong friends in New Hampshire who meet up at a small repair shop. They find out that a rich young college kid shared a bad video of one friend's teenage daughter online, and they plan to get revenge on him. The story looks at how these tough working-class men behave and how they think about women. This theme of toxic behavior and modern internet abuse is visible but is shown through a very raw and politically incorrect story.
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Was our 13% Woke rating accurate?
Breakdown
These are the editorial factors and ratings behind our score for Small Engine Repair.
Woke representation / casting
The casting is very realistic and matches the small-town New Hampshire setting. The main actors play gritty, working-class characters, and there is no forced diversity or visible identity signaling.
0%
Woke political dialogue
The characters speak in raw, crude, and politically incorrect ways. There are no activist speeches, progressive lectures, or modern social-justice talking points in the script.
Production
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Identity-driven story themes
The plot focuses on fatherhood, working-class friendship, and protecting a daughter from cyber exploitation. It avoids modern identity politics, racial themes, or intersectional feminist narratives.
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Western institutional / cultural critique
The film shows the toxic parts of traditional blue-collar male behavior. The friends laugh at leaked pictures of other girls but get violent when a rich kid leaks a video of their own family member. The story points out this male hypocrisy, but it does so through a gritty, non-politically correct lens rather than a preachy progressive lecture.
20%
Woke character or canon changes
Not present in this title.
0%
Anti-woke backlash and complaints
There was no right-leaning or anti-woke backlash against the movie. The only complaints came from left-wing critics who did not like the politically incorrect humor or the crude blackmail scheme at the end.
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Creator track record context
Most of the creative team has no record of progressive or identity-driven activism. While producer Jon Bernthal and producer Rick Rosenthal have worked on some socially conscious projects, the core writer John Pollono and most other crew members have clean, non-activist track records.
15%
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