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Take This Waltz
Why this pick
Like A Walk on the Moon, it observes a marriage being unsettled by private longing, with unusually tender attention to domestic routines, desire, and the cost of choices.
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MOVIE1999 1h 47m USA
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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A Walk on the Moon
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Why this pick
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An Education
Why this pick
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Far from Heaven
Why this pick
A visually precise period drama in which repression, marriage, and forbidden emotional connection create an elegant, deeply felt portrait of lives constrained by their era.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Pearl Kantrowitz (Diane Lane) and her husband Marty (Liev Schreiber) are a lower middle class Jewish couple in New York City, where Marty is a television repairman. The movie begins with the couple and their family including their teenage daughter Alison (Anna Paquin) and young son Danny (Bobby Boriello) and Marty's mother Lillian (Tovah Feldshuh) going to their summer camp retreat, Dr. Fogler's Bungalows, which they attend each summer.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Viggo Mortensen
Walker Jerome
Liev Schreiber
Marty Kantrowitz
Stewart Bick
Neil Leiberman
Bobby Boriello
Daniel Kantrowitz
Star Jasper
Rhoda Leiberman
Ellen David
Eleanor Gelfand
Lisa Bronwyn Moore
Norma Fogler
Victoria Barkoff
Selma Levitsky (as Vicky Barkoff)