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Wendy and Lucy
Why this pick
A spare, intimate road-side portrait of economic precarity, carried by unhurried observation and deep empathy for a woman navigating isolation.
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MOVIE2020 1h 48m USA
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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Why this pick
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01 / THE STORY
See you down the road.
A woman in her sixties who, after losing everything in the Great Recession, embarks on a journey through the American West, living as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Frances McDormand
Fern
David Strathairn
Dave
Linda May
Linda
Charlene Swankie
Swankie
Gay DeForest
Gay
Patricia Grier
Patty
Angela Reyes
Angela
Carl R. Hughes
Carl