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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
01
Why this pick
Like Maggenti’s film, it treats teenage girls’ first love with scruffy humour, social awkwardness, and enormous tenderness, letting class and school pressures complicate rather than eclipse the romance.
02
Why this pick
A warm, funny queer indie made in the same DIY moment, with an outspoken Black video-store clerk pursuing love while uncovering a neglected lesbian history.
03
Why this pick
Its romance has the same buoyant, sincere pull: two women fall for each other amid family expectations, with affectionate comedy and a clear-eyed belief that young love deserves space.
04
Why this pick
For the grounded coming-of-age honesty and tomboy protagonist: it is more emotionally intense, but equally attentive to style, friendship, family friction, and the relief of finding a place to belong.
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Why this pick
This gentle school-age triangle shares the original’s unhurried, sunlit intimacy and empathy for uncertain desire, prioritising small interactions and tentative self-discovery over melodrama.
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01 / THE STORY
It is spring. Randy Dean is a 17-year-old student in her twelfth grade with poor grades, only one friend - Frank, a gay Latino - secret cigarette and marijuana habits and a cashier's job at a gas station with fellow worker Regina. Shunned by other students for her tomboyish personality and appearance, she spends most of her free time either by herself or in illicit meetings with her affair Wendy, a married woman who drops by the gas station when it pleases her, even though Randy knows they are in a dead-end relationship. Randy lives with her lesbian aunt Rebecca and her girlfriend Vicky in their mobile home, as well as Rebecca's ex-girlfriend Lena, who has no place to stay and is living with them until she finds somewhere else she can go to.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Randy Dean
Evie Roy
Rebecca Dean
Lena
Regina
Evelyn Roy
Ali, Wendy's husband
Wendy
