Films like The World According to Garp
A struggling young writer finds his life and work dominated by his unfaithful wife and his radical feminist mother, whose best-selling manifesto turns her into a cultural icon.
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Almost Friends
Film · 2017 · also comedy and dramaA man in his mid-20s, still living at home with his mother and stepfather, puts all his eggs in one basket: the girl who works at his local coffee shop. The problem is, s...
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Queen of the Ring
Film · 2025 · also dramaIn a time when pro wrestling for women was illegal all over the country, a small town single mother embraces the danger to change culture as she dominates America's most...
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Nocturnal Animals
Film · 2016 · also dramaSusan Morrow receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband – a man she left 20 years earlier – asking for her opinion of his writing. As she reads, she is drawn into the...
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Shirley
Film · 2020 · also dramaA famous horror writer finds inspiration for her next book after she and her husband take in a young couple.
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Foxcatcher
Film · 2014 · also dramaThe greatest Olympic Wrestling Champion brother team joins Team Foxcatcher led by multimillionaire sponsor John E. du Pont as they train for the 1988 games in Seoul - a u...
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Wilson
Film · 2017 · also comedy and dramaMiddle-aged and divorced, Wilson finds himself lonely, smug, and obsessed with his past.
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Bruised
Film · 2021 · also dramaJackie Justice is a mixed martial arts fighter who leaves the sport in disgrace. Down on her luck and simmering with rage and regret years after the fight, she's coaxed i...
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First Match
Film · 2018 · also dramaHardened by years in foster care, a teenage girl from Brooklyn’s Brownsville neighborhood decides that wrestling boys is the only way back to her estranged father.
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Mother
Film · 1996 · also comedy and dramaA neurotic, twice-divorced sci-fi writer moves back in with his mother to solve his personal problems.
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This Is Where I Leave You
Film · 2014 · also comedy and dramaWhen their father passes away, four grown, world-weary siblings return to their childhood home and are requested -- with an admonition -- to stay there together for a wee...
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