Just as Amelia thinks she's over her anxiety and insecurity, her best friend announces her engagement, bringing her anxiety and insecurity right back.
Acting
Catherine Keener's panic attacks are devastatingly real
Writing
Holofcener's dialogue cuts like a best friend who knows too much
Direction
Intimate framing that stays in awkward silences
Director
Nicole Holofcener
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Nicole Holofcener's debut feature, shot for under $1 million and premiered at Sundance. It essentially invented the 'women talking in apartments' indie subgenre.
The film captures pre-Seinfeld-wealth Manhattan: characters have roommates, jobs that don't pay enough, and relationship problems that can't be solved by moving to Brooklyn.
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The prelude to social media/interests in others just living life is in 90s movies like this.
@salpine 3
Miramax was so fucking good at taking delightful movies, and giving them trailers that made them look like the worst shit you could ever see.
@lepusrex 7
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