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IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
Holofcener again finds humor and ache in casually overlapping conversations, insecure attraction, and close female relationships, with the same unforced, intimate Manhattan-adjacent texture.
02
Why this pick
Its post-college friends drift through romance and stalled adulthood in sharp, deceptively casual dialogue—an ideal companion to Walking and Talking’s neurotic warmth and low-key emotional stakes.
03
Why this pick
A relationship crisis becomes a nimble, character-first New York-area odyssey, balancing embarrassment, family friction, and affectionate observation rather than pushing for broad comedy.
04
Why this pick
This is similarly patient with messy attraction and the things people cannot quite say, though its small-town setting gives the tender conversational realism a more wistful, lyrical feeling.
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Why this pick
For the same precise blend of romantic uncertainty, friendship, and dry social observation, this later Holofcener film offers a gentler, more mature variation on the emotional candor you liked.
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01 / THE STORY
Amelia (Catherine Keener) and Laura (Anne Heche) are childhood best friends. Amelia is left feeling vulnerable when Laura and her boyfriend Frank (Todd Field) get engaged. She begins to date Bill (Kevin Corrigan), the local clerk at the video rental store she frequents. Though she initially is off put by his looks and his obsession with scifi and horror films she begins to grow attracted to him when she learns he is working on a screenplay about the life of Colette. The two have sex, however while Amelia is in the bathroom she receives a call from Laura asking how her date was with "the ugly guy". Hurt after hearing this Bill abruptly leaves.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Laura
Andrew
Peter
Betsy
Amelia
Frank
Bill
Andrew's Mom
