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Happiness
Why this pick
Solondz’s earlier ensemble satire shares Storytelling’s mercilessly awkward humor, suburban malaise, and coolly observed characters whose private needs curdle into discomfort.
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MOVIE2001 1h 27m USA
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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Why this pick
Its deliberately artificial structure, shifting performers, and deadpan treatment of moral panic make it a particularly close companion to Storytelling’s provocative formal games.
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The Ice Storm
Why this pick
A wintry, precise portrait of affluent suburban families unraveling, balancing adolescent confusion and adult hypocrisy with the same unsparing emotional distance.
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Me and You and Everyone We Know
Why this pick
It similarly finds oddness in everyday American intimacy and uses episodic encounters, though its deadpan strangeness carries more tenderness than Solondz’s acid bite.
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Chuck & Buck
Why this pick
An unnervingly comic study of arrested development and social boundaries, played with the same willingness to leave the viewer stranded between empathy and recoil.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
The film consists of two stories that are unrelated and have different actors, titled "Fiction" and "Non-Fiction". College and high school serve as the backdrop for these two stories about dysfunction and personal turmoil.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Selma Blair
Vi
Robert Wisdom
Mr. Scott
Angela Goethals
Elli
Steve Rosen
Ethan
Mary Lynn Rajskub
Melinda
Jonathan Osser
Brady Livingston
Noah Fleiss
Brady Livingston
Pat Kiernan
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