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Dr. Hattie Davis is not a real person. [more inside]
posted by rhizome on Dec 17, 2023 - 8 comments

Jack Gladney, professor of Hitler studies at The-College-on-the-Hill, husband to Babette, and father to four children/stepchildren, is torn asunder by a chemical spill from a rail car that releases an "Airborne Toxic Event" forcing Jack to confront his biggest fear - his own mortality. [IMDB] [more inside]
posted by chavenet on Jan 2, 2023 - 21 comments

A New York woman (who doesn't really have an apartment) apprentices for a dance company (though she's not really a dancer) and throws herself headlong into her dreams, even as the possibility of realizing them dwindles. Starring and written by Greta Gerwig, written and directed by Noah Baumbach [more inside]
posted by Carillon on Feb 27, 2020 - 15 comments

Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War. [more inside]
posted by ominous_paws on Dec 26, 2019 - 58 comments

Set in Japan, Isle of Dogs follows a boy's odyssey in search of his dog. [more inside]
posted by MoonOrb on Mar 22, 2018 - 37 comments

Christine "Lady Bird" McPherson, a fiercely independent teenager, tries to make her own way in the world while wanting to get out of her hometown of Sacramento, California & to get away from her complicated mother & recently-unemployed father.
posted by GuyZero on Nov 13, 2017 - 31 comments

The story of three women who explore love and freedom in Southern California during the late 1970s.
posted by rhizome on Feb 21, 2017 - 6 comments