Smithereens
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Its scruffy, stylized urban world and offbeat characters share Trouble in Mind’s comic-book noir energy, with a similarly sharp eye for dreamers surviving at the city’s margins.
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SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
Why this pick
Its scruffy, stylized urban world and offbeat characters share Trouble in Mind’s comic-book noir energy, with a similarly sharp eye for dreamers surviving at the city’s margins.
Why this pick
A sun-bleached neo-noir about damaged people drawn into crime, carrying the same melancholy, eccentric character chemistry and fatalistic tension beneath its genre surface.
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This humid, deliberately paced neo-noir pairs illicit desire and small-town criminality with an unreal, highly composed atmosphere akin to Trouble in Mind’s romanticized pulp world.
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Its crime plot stays grounded in lonely, compromised people rather than mechanics alone, building a tense, bruised neo-noir mood with unexpected emotional weight.
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A sleek, mordantly funny neo-noir whose morally slippery characters and heightened pulp sensibility echo the playful darkness and stylized criminal universe of Trouble in Mind.
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01 / THE STORY
In the mysterious metropolis of Rain City, a former policeman, Hawk, is out of prison after serving eight years on a murder rap. He returns to his former hangout, Wanda's Cafe, run by his former love, Wanda.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME

Hawk

Solo
Lieutenant Gunther

Rambo

Coop

Georgia
Hilly Blue
Nate Nathanson