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Films like The Wackness.

The Wackness (2008) reads as Neutral, kinetic, measured 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.

Cloaca (2003) poster
1. Cloaca2003

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

Friends with Money (2006) poster
2. Friends with Money2006

Keeps the heightened unreality and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Simon (2004) poster
3. Simon2004

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

And Everything Is Going Fine (2010) poster
4. And Everything Is Going Fine2010

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

Lovely & Amazing (2001) poster
5. Lovely & Amazing2001

Keeps the heightened unreality and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Smart People (2008) poster
6. Smart People2008

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

Young and Wild (2012) poster
7. Young and Wild2012

Keeps the heightened unreality and the intimate, personal stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Sunshine Cleaning (2008) poster
8. Sunshine Cleaning2008

Keeps the heightened unreality and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Grandma (2015) poster
9. Grandma2015

Keeps the heightened unreality and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Burke & Hare (2010) poster
10. Burke & Hare2010

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

Blind Dates (2013) poster
11. Blind Dates2013

Keeps the heightened unreality and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll (2010) poster
12. Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll2010

Keeps the heightened unreality and the intimate, personal stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

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