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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
Rafelson’s earlier character study shares the same bleak, unhurried 1970s drift: a damaged man moving through shabby America, with volatile family encounters and emotional truths left painfully unresolved.
02
Why this pick
Its windblown, dying-town atmosphere and quietly devastating ensemble dynamics echo Marvin Gardens’ sense of people trapped between fantasy, economic decay, and intimate disappointment.
03
Why this pick
A bruised, deeply humane portrait of marginal lives, played with the same observational patience and refusal to sentimentalize people chasing one more unlikely chance.
04
Why this pick
This loose, melancholy road film finds tenderness and danger in an unstable male partnership, matching the raw performances and down-at-heel American texture of Rafelson’s film.
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Why this pick
Its weary criminal world is less plot-driven than character-driven, with a similarly muted, wintery realism and acute feeling for people whose dreams have already narrowed.
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01 / THE STORY
David and Jason are brothers, the former a depressive living with his grandfather in Philadelphia where he runs a late-night radio talk show and the latter an extrovert con man working for gang boss Lewis in Atlantic City, where he lives with the manic-depressive Sally, former beauty queen and prostitute, and her stepdaughter Jessica, who entertained men alongside her mother. After no contact for eighteen months, Jason asks David to come to Atlantic City for an opportunity to "make our fortune". David arrives and, after he is bailed out of jail, Jason persuades him to stay on in his hotel suite with the two women. He explains his scheme for a casino in Hawaii and tells him that they will share the girls when they go there.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Jason Staebler
Lewis
Surtees
Fujito
David Staebler
Sally
Lebowitz
Frank
