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IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
01
Why this pick
Like Starlet, it finds tenderness and comic volatility in lives often reduced to their margins, using sun-blasted Los Angeles streets, intimate observation, and an unusually generous eye for flawed people.
02
Why this pick
Its vivid, lived-in low-budget texture and patient attention to precarious everyday life echo Starlet’s humane interest in people making do, while balancing warmth, awkward humor, and melancholy.
03
Why this pick
A quiet, offbeat connection between a young woman and an older neighbor develops with the same interest in unexpected companionship, social distance, and emotional ambiguity that makes Starlet linger.
04
Why this pick
This shares Starlet’s unforced realism and compassion for a woman on society’s edge. Its spare pacing, modest encounters, and attention to economic fragility create a similarly intimate emotional pull.
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Why this pick
Sean Baker’s earlier street-level drama has Starlet’s naturalistic performances and affection for messy, improvised lives, observing chance connections and survival with warmth rather than judgement.
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01 / THE STORY
Jane, who also introduces herself as Tess, is a young woman who lives in an apartment with two dysfunctional roommates, Melissa, and Melissa's boyfriend Mikey, and her Chihuahua dog Starlet. Jane decides she wants to personalize her room, but Melissa says the room cannot be painted because Mikey needs it for "shoots". Jane decides to buy new furniture at neighborhood yard sales. At one such sale she comes across an old woman named Sadie, from whom she buys a thermos.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Melissa
Mikey
Herself
Director F.J. Sloan
Yard Sale Attendee
Yard Sale Attendee
Waiting Room Girl
Police Officer
