Films like The Friend
New York City writer Iris finds her comfortable, solitary life thrown into disarray after her closest friend and mentor bequeaths her a Great Dane named Apollo. The huge dog immediately creates practical problems for Iris, from furniture destruction to eviction notices, as well a...
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A Dog Year
Film · 2009 · also comedy and dramaJon Katz is close to burnout. He's a writer with writer's block; his wife has left for her sister's because he's emotionally distant; he rarely answers his phone. A kenne...
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Paper Man
Film · 2009 · also comedy and dramaA coming-of-middle-age comedy that chronicles the unlikely friendship between failed author Richard Dunne and a Long Island teen who teaches him a thing or two about grow...
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A Man Called Otto
Film · 2022 · also comedy and dramaWhen a lively young family moves in next door, grumpy widower Otto Anderson meets his match in a quick-witted, pregnant woman named Marisol, leading to an unlikely friend...
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Chloe and Theo
Film · 2015 · also comedy and dramaA young woman, Chloe, living by her wits on the streets of New York City, has a chance meeting with a wise Inuit Eskimo, Theo, who was sent to New York by his elders to p...
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Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Film · 2011 · also dramaA year after his father's death, Oskar, a troubled young boy, discovers a mysterious key he believes was left for him by his father and embarks on a scavenger hunt to fin...
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The Last Word
Film · 2017 · also comedy and dramaA retired businesswoman – who tries to control everything around her – decides to write her own obituary. A young journalist takes up the task of finding out the truth, a...
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High Strung
Film · 1992 · also comedyThane Furrows, an extremely cynical but unintentionally hilarious children's book writer, wakes up one morning, and, since pretty much everyone and everything annoys him,...
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The Hours
Film · 2002 · also dramaThe story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different time and place, all are linked by their yearnings and their fears. Thei...
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The Station Agent
Film · 2003 · also comedy and dramaWhen his only friend dies, a man born with dwarfism moves to rural New Jersey to live a life of solitude, only to meet a chatty hot dog vendor and a woman dealing with he...
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My Salinger Year
Film · 2020 · also dramaA college grad takes a clerical job working for the literary agent of the renowned, reclusive writer J.D. Salinger.
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