Learning about human kind! Closer. Outside your comfort zone, everything is original and exciting! Keeping scenes to two characters. The four people who all have sex with each other (before one of them wins). 2004, that bizarre year in history. Let’s talk about sex. Disasters could have been averted! Smack my bitch up. Sex and ethics. Mike Leigh and Happy Go Lucky. The human experience. Happy without tuning out. First impressions – or why Eric takes pride in looking like some immature kid. Optimistic, not an airhead. What would actually happen if you were never upset about anything? Driving instructions. Is there a downside to living like Poppy?
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Closer: 02:40 | Happy Go Lucky: 28:13
Also referenced: Melinda and Melinda, Behind the Mask, The Shape of Things, Tank Girl, The Net, Look, The Invention of Lying, An Idiot Abroad, Misfits, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Black Christmas, Two Lane Blacktop, Rubber
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Closer
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Director: Mike Nichols
Writer: Patrick Marber
Starring: Natalie Portman, Jude Law, Clive Owen, Julia Roberts
The relationships of two couples become complicated and deceitful when the man from one couple meets the woman of the other.
Happy Go Lucky
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Director: Mike Leigh
Writer: Mike Leigh
Starring: Sally Hawkins, Alexis Zegerman, Samuel Roukin, Eddie Marsan
A look at a few chapters in the life of Poppy, a cheery, colorful, North London schoolteacher whose optimism tends to exasperate those around her.
