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IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
Like The World of Henry Orient, it treats adolescent friendship as a vivid private universe, balancing mischievous comedy with the tender, unsettling realities beneath a girl's coming-of-age.
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Why this pick
George Roy Hill again finds a youthful, conspiratorial point of view: children turn everyday adult complications into a romantic quest, with warmth, wit, and graceful urban-European observation.
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Why this pick
Its sensitive portrait of a lonely teenage girl shares Henry Orient's compassion for youthful imagination and emotional need, though in a quieter and more openly melancholy register.
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Why this pick
A stylized schoolgirl world, intense female allegiances, and adults seen through adolescent fascination make this a sharper, darker companion to Henry Orient's girl-centered perspective.
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Why this pick
For Peter Sellers' blend of theatrical comic self-importance and surprising vulnerability, this New York romantic comedy offers similarly buoyant dialogue and a gently observed domestic emotional arc.
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01 / THE STORY
In early 1960s New York City, concert pianist Henry Orient (Peter Sellers) pursues an affair with a married woman, Stella Dunnworthy (Paula Prentiss), while two adolescent private-school girls, Valerie "Val" Boyd (Tippy Walker) and Marian "Gil" Gilbert (Merrie Spaeth), stalk him and write their fantasies about him in a diary. Orient's paranoia leads him to believe that the two girls, who seem to pop up everywhere he goes, are spies sent by his would-be mistress's husband.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Stella Dunnworthy
Mrs. Avis Gilbert
Erica 'Boothy' Booth
Valarie 'Val' Campbell Boyd
Sidney
Store Owner
Joe Daniels
Isabel Boyd
