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IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
01
Why this pick
Shares Chuck & Buck’s raw, defiantly uncomfortable emotional exposure and lo-fi intimacy, turning damaged desire and dependency into something darkly funny, volatile, and unexpectedly tender.
02
Why this pick
Its suburban deadpan and fearless attention to shame, repression, and inappropriate longing make it a close tonal companion—painfully funny without softening its characters’ needs.
03
Why this pick
Miguel Arteta brings a similarly dry, compassionate eye to lonely people behaving badly, with an awkward small-town texture and comedy that steadily reveals genuine sadness.
04
Why this pick
Like Chuck & Buck, it finds uneasy humor and surprising humanity in behavior others dismiss as aberrant, centering emotional vulnerability rather than conventional romantic wish fulfillment.
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Why this pick
A caustic, cringe-forward portrait of arrested development and fixation on a past relationship, driven by an unflinching willingness to stay close to its difficult protagonist.
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01 / THE STORY
Buck O'Brien (Mike White (scriptwriter)) is a 27-year-old amateur playwright with the maturity level of an adolescent. When Buck's mother dies unexpectedly, he invites his close childhood friend Chuck (Chris Weitz) to the funeral. Chuck (who is now calling himself "Charlie") is a successful music industry exec with a fiancée, Carlyn (Beth Colt). He and Buck experimented sexually with each other when they were 11, but Charlie has repressed these memories and acts as if they had not occurred. Chuck had moved away while they were still children, and Buck has pined after him ever since. During their awkward reunion, Buck makes a sexual advance on Charlie in the bathroom. Charlie rebuffs him, and returns to Los Angeles with Carlyn, but not before extending an obligatory invitation for Buck to visit him there. Buck then withdraws $10,000 from his bank account, packs up his car, and takes up residence in a motel in Los Angeles. He also begins scripting a play on a yellow legal pad: titled "Hank and Frank and the Witch", it is an obvious plea for Charlie's love.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Beverly Franco
Diane
Mrs. O'Brien
Barry
Buck O'Brien
Charlie 'Chuck' Sitter
Jamilla
Sam
