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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
Like Swimming with Sharks, it turns professional ambition into a cruel psychological contest, with sharply uncomfortable humor and characters using status, charm, and vulnerability as weapons.
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Why this pick
A more sprawling but equally acid Hollywood satire, following a studio executive through an industry where career panic, cynicism, and polished surfaces conceal ruthless behavior.
03
Why this pick
Its enclosed workplace is another pressure cooker of humiliation, intimidation, and desperate ambition, driven by vicious dialogue and shifting dominance rather than action.
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Why this pick
Neil LaBute’s caustic ensemble piece carries a similarly merciless interest in ego, manipulation, and men treating intimate exchanges as contests for control.
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Why this pick
For the same appetite for corrosive workplace comedy and escalating ethical rot, this offers a far more exuberant, chaotic portrait of power, exploitation, and career intoxication.
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01 / THE STORY
Buddy Ackerman, an influential movie mogul, hires Guy, a naïve young writer, as his assistant. Guy, who had just graduated from film school, believes that his new job is a golden opportunity. Despite warnings from Rex, the outgoing assistant who has become hardened under Buddy's reign, Guy remains optimistic.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Buddy Ackerman
Guy
Dawn Lockard
Moe
Cyrus Miles
Manny
Jack
Rex
