Broken Flowers
Why this pick
Like High Fidelity, it turns a man’s romantic history into a rueful, sharply observed journey, but trades Rob’s frantic lists and record-store energy for dry humor and quietly aching reflection.
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SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
Why this pick
Like High Fidelity, it turns a man’s romantic history into a rueful, sharply observed journey, but trades Rob’s frantic lists and record-store energy for dry humor and quietly aching reflection.
Why this pick
For High Fidelity’s uncomfortable honesty about ego and failed relationships, this offers similarly literate, funny, painful character observation and a protagonist whose self-image is more flattering than reality.
Why this pick
This is another wry portrait of smart, stalled twenty-somethings using conversation, taste, and irony to dodge adulthood—less romantic, but close to High Fidelity’s bittersweet self-scrutiny.
Why this pick
A funny, tender breakup story with the same interest in how affection, nostalgia, and defensiveness complicate moving on; it has High Fidelity’s emotional candor from a more mutual perspective.
Why this pick
For the record-store romanticism and music-as-emotional-language in High Fidelity, this offers an all-night, funny-sweet connection between guarded young people moving through an indie-music world.
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01 / THE STORY
Rob Gordon, a self-confessed music loving everyman with a poor understanding of women, is dumped by his girlfriend Laura, and in an attempt to understand what went wrong, he decides to visit his old romantic partners.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME

Rob Gordon

Laura

Dick

Barry

Marie DeSalle

Charlie Nicholson

Liz

Ian 'Ray' Raymond