Who says drama has to be dramatic? Audley’s Team Picture presents a view of experience close to the flatness and banality of off–screen life. Rather than being organized around dramatic conflicts, confrontations, and resolutions, Audley’s narrative consists of evasions, delays, and deferrals of dramatic significance. The main character, Dave, drifts and dawdles for most of the movie, and most of what matters to him and other characters is never verbalized. These may sound like merely negative virtues, but Audley’s studious avoidance of rhetorical heightening reveals a complex world on the other side of the programmatic conflicts and patterned intensifications of mainstream filmmaking.