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Films like Good Dick.

Good Dick (2008) reads as Neutral, measured, gentle comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.

To Paint or Make Love (2005) poster
1. To Paint or Make Love2005

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the heightened unreality; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Digging for Fire (2015) poster
2. Digging for Fire2015

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Puffy Chair (2006) poster
3. The Puffy Chair2006

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

A Stray Girlfriend (2007) poster
4. A Stray Girlfriend2007

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

LOL (2006) poster
5. LOL2006

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Lonesome Jim (2005) poster
6. Lonesome Jim2005

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Lily Sometimes (2010) poster
7. Lily Sometimes2010

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Hallam Foe (2007) poster
8. Hallam Foe2007

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Blue Eyelids (2007) poster
9. Blue Eyelids2007

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (2009) poster
10. The Private Lives of Pippa Lee2009

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the cold, bleak undertow; trades toward a dense, packed storytelling.

Cutie and the Boxer (2013) poster
11. Cutie and the Boxer2013

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Duck Butter (2018) poster
12. Duck Butter2018

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

These are Good Dick’s neighbours — where are yours?

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