Metropolitan
Why this pick
Its literate, delicately funny ensemble of young New Yorkers shares the post-college drift and conversational intimacy of Kicking and Screaming, while giving indecision a more mannered, wintry social setting.
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SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
Why this pick
Its literate, delicately funny ensemble of young New Yorkers shares the post-college drift and conversational intimacy of Kicking and Screaming, while giving indecision a more mannered, wintry social setting.
Why this pick
A low-key portrait of a recent graduate stumbling through work, friendships and romantic uncertainty; its loose naturalism and small-scale emotional awkwardness closely fit Baumbach’s early-film sensibility.
Why this pick
Nicole Holofcener brings a similarly sharp but compassionate ear to friends negotiating breakups, stalled adulthood and changing loyalties through casual, revealing conversation.
Why this pick
This New York indie turns relationship unease into a compact, talky road detour, with the same 1990s mix of neurotic humor, emotional hesitation and closely observed social dynamics.
Why this pick
For the pleasure of articulate young people trying to decode love, status and adulthood. Its ensemble banter is more polished than Kicking and Screaming, but similarly humane about uncertainty.
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01 / THE STORY
After college graduation, Grover's girlfriend Jane tells him she's moving to Prague to study writing. Grover declines to accompany her, deciding instead to move in with several friends, all of whom can't quite work up the inertia to escape their university's pull. Nobody wants to make any big decisions that would radically alter his life, yet none of them wants to end up like Chet, the professional student who tends bar and is in his tenth year of university studies.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME

Jane

Miami

Bouncer

Kate
Amy
Stephanie
Louis
Audra