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Marriage Story

2019 · Drama · Noah Baumbach · 2h 16m

A theatre director and the actor married to him are separating, and what starts as a decent, agreed split turns into lawyers on two coasts. Mostly conversations, and a few of them are very long.

  • Strongly realistic
  • Strongly character-driven
  • Strongly intimate
  • Clearly heavy

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Describe: Marriage Story

Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

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