Movies like Garden State, Adventureland

can anyone reccomend some films that are in the alley of those 2? they are just really enjoyable flicks

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• Kicking and Screaming
  1995, Noah Baumbach
• Say Anything...
  1989, Cameron Crowe
• Harold & Maude
  1971, Hal Ashby
• The Graduate
  1967, Mike Nichols
• I ♥ Huckabees
  2004, David O. Russell
• Breaking Away
  1979, Peter Yates

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And I'd add Whit Stillman's work, which I like very much (though Disco is certainly the least of the three)...

• Metropolitan
  1990, Whit Stillman
• Barcelona
  1994, Whit Stillman
• The Last Days of Disco
  1998, Whit Stillman

And some others to add to the mix...

• Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
  2008, Peter Sollett
• High Fidelity
  2000, Stephen Frears
• The Sure Thing
  1985, Rob Reiner
• Benny & Joon
  1993, Jeremiah Chechik
• Arizona Dream
  1993, Emir Kusturica
• Junebug
  2005, Phil Morrison

I don't know if Nick & Nora..., Say Anything and Benny & Joon are like the films you mention (as they're suggestions from HP, I assume they are) but they're well worth seeing anyway. Wonderful films.

I re-watched another good precursor to the Adventureland brand of summer job coming-of-age flick...


The Flamingo Kid
1984, Garry Marshall

Stars Matt Dillon with Richard Crenna, Hector Elizondo and a super-sexy Janet Jones, before she became Mrs. The Great One Gretzky. The supporting cast includes Jessica Walter, Fisher Stevens, Bronson Pinchot and John Turturro. A twenty-year-old pre-fame Marisa Tomei has a small background part. Definitely worth a look, I watch it every summer.




And as for a recent good'un in the existential mopey Garden State variety, check out...


Greenberg
2010, Noah Baumbach

It comes to R1 DVD a week from Tuesday if you missed it in the theaters. Apparently only me and about a thousand other stalwarts paid money for the privilege a few months ago, but it's very much worth seeing. Especially if you dug Garden State.

500 days of summer

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Almost Famous

Lymelife

Igby Goes Down

Chasing Amy

Orange County



Waiting...




Big Fish

Shrink




Chaos Theory




One Week

Dazed and Confused



Cashback

Outside Providence


Finding Forrester


Before Sunrise

Assassination of a High School President

Beautiful girls
Imaginary Heroes
Little Miss Sunshine
The Squid and the Whale

+ for the Squid and the Whale

You know, having been interested in this since I first saw the trailer, actually seeing the film in its entirety was a true disappointment. It was slow, and uninteresting, and it felt at times as though it were trying to mirror Garden State, which is a far superior film.

Focus Features usually put out good work, but this was forgettable.

yeah for Juno