The Big Sick
2017 · Comedy · Michael Showalter · 1h 59m
A Pakistani-American stand-up comic is seeing a white grad student while his parents line up matches for him, and then she falls seriously ill. A lot of it is him in a hospital waiting room with her parents, who have only just met him.
- Strongly realistic
- Strongly character-driven
- Clearly intimate
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2018 · Comedy
A broke and prickly New York biographer works out that she can pay the rent by writing letters in dead authors' voices and selling them. Dry, funny, and largely two people drinking in bars.
- Strongly realistic
- Strongly intimate
- Strongly character-driven
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Another Round
93% alike
2020 · Comedy
Four schoolteachers in their forties test a theory that people do better with a bit of alcohol in their blood, so they start drinking at work. It follows the four of them over a term and swings between funny and sad.
- Strongly realistic
- Strongly character-driven
- Clearly intimate
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Silver Linings Playbook
93% alike
2012 · Comedy
A man comes out of a psychiatric hospital set on winning his wife back, moves in with his parents, and meets a young widow who offers him a deal involving a dance contest. Loud families, and everyone talking over each other.
- Strongly realistic
- Strongly character-driven
- Clearly intimate
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