Obvious Child
Why this pick
Robespierre’s earlier film shares Landline’s candid, funny-sad New York voice, messy family intimacy, and affection for flawed women finding emotional clarity.
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IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
Why this pick
Robespierre’s earlier film shares Landline’s candid, funny-sad New York voice, messy family intimacy, and affection for flawed women finding emotional clarity.
Why this pick
A sharply funny but compassionate family dramedy, centered on estranged siblings whose banter and shared history gradually expose deeper hurts.
Why this pick
Nicole Holofcener’s dry, conversational portrait of women navigating friendship, dissatisfaction, and adulthood matches Landline’s observational humor and humane messiness.
Why this pick
Its loose, naturalistic comic style and emotionally stalled heroine echo Landline’s interest in adulthood as an uncertain, funny, and deeply relational process.
Why this pick
A gentle, dialogue-led comic drama about nostalgia and arrested adulthood, with the same preference for flawed people, awkward honesty, and bittersweet warmth.
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01 / THE STORY
In 1995, a teenager living with her sister and parents in Manhattan discovers that her father is having an affair.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME

Dana Jacobs

Pat Jacobs

Alan Jacobs

Ben

Nate

Jed

Sandra

Vargas