There are others but these are the ones that popped to mind.
- Igby Goes Down: A modern Holden Caufield. Young urban angst in all its heartbreaking glory.
- Mysterious Skin: The beginning of what will be a lifelong adoration of Joseph Gorden-Levitt.
- Quinceanera: Small and pointed but also full of love and hope and possibility.
- Junebug: You can’t go home again but in some ways you can never leave it behind either.
- Lone Star: America’s story in all its twisted, screwed up, hot pot of race and class and love.
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Junebug and Lone Star are both great. I’ll have to check out the others.
Check out Sweetland and Millions, two other great small movies. Sweetland could have been set in a Mennonite village, so it’s your obligation to see it, if you can find it anywhere…
Sweetland is the movie about the farmer bringing the German? wife, right? Because I did see it and I did like it. It was a Netflix recommendation that actually did right by me (for once!).