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IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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Why this pick
A tightly focused, compassionate portrait of addiction and self-deception, sharing Little Sheba’s sense that a damaged life can be revealed through ordinary rooms and fraught relationships.
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Why this pick
Its restrained performances and tenderness toward wounded people echo the emotional directness of Little Sheba, finding fragile hope without softening harsh social realities.
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Why this pick
A quiet, unsettled study of people stranded by regret and responsibility; its intimate, unvarnished emotional tone fits Little Sheba’s attention to lives that did not become what they imagined.
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Why this pick
This sober domestic drama shares Little Sheba’s interest in a woman confronting loneliness, compromise, and alcohol beneath the surface of an outwardly settled marriage.
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Why this pick
For the same actor-driven, claustrophobic family pain: addiction, old disappointments, and buried resentments emerge through sustained confrontations rather than melodramatic plotting.
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01 / THE STORY
"Doc" Delaney (Burt Lancaster) is a recovering alcoholic married to Lola (Shirley Booth). Doc had once been a promising medical student, but dropped out of college when Lola became pregnant with his child, marrying her because her father had thrown her out of the house. The child later died, and in the process rendered Lola unable to have any further children. Doc spent the next several years drinking away the pain, in the process ruining his career and wasting his inheritance from his parents on alcohol. He eventually joined Alcoholics Anonymous and was able to quit drinking, though he still keeps a bottle in the house as a reminder of what drinking did to his life.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Lola Delaney
Marie Buckholder
Mrs. Coffman
Pearl Stinson
Doc Delaney
Turk Fisher
Ed Anderson
Elmo Huston
