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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
Another raw, volatile Cassavetes chamber drama, centered on a woman coming apart under professional and emotional pressure. Its handheld intimacy and unstable performances preserve the painful immediacy of A Woman Under the Influence.
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Why this pick
Shares the bruised, improvisational emotional texture and compassion for difficult people. Family need, loneliness, and self-destructive behavior unfold in scenes that feel startlingly unguarded rather than neatly plotted.
03
Why this pick
Its long, close-quarters confrontations and jagged shifts between humor, affection, and cruelty anticipate the domestic intensity of A Woman Under the Influence.
04
Why this pick
A devastating study of male friendship and emotional avoidance, with the same loose, confrontational rhythms and willingness to let behavior become uncomfortable, messy, and deeply revealing.
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Why this pick
A fractured portrait of a woman negotiating loneliness, memory, and emotional dependency. Its elliptical structure and Cassavetes-adjacent performance style echo Mabel's unsettled inner life.
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01 / THE STORY
Los Angeles housewife and mother Mabel loves her construction-worker husband Nick and desperately wants to please him, but the strange mannerisms and increasingly odd behavior (likely Borderline Personality Disorder) she displays while in the company of others has him concerned. Convinced she has become a threat to herself and others, he reluctantly commits her to an institution, where she undergoes treatment for six months.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Mabel Longhetti
George Mortensen
Dr. Zepp
Angelo Longhetti
Harold Jensen
Nick Longhetti
