If you loved Serious Moonlight, try 40 Days and 40 Nights

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

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40 Days and 40 Nights

2002 · dir. Michael Lehmann

What they share

Theysit in Comedy / Romance territory. If that's the register that drew you to Serious Moonlight, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

What 40 Days and 40 Nights is

San Francisco, Lent, a priest's sermon murmurs in the background. A vow of celibacy tests a young man's resolve as the woman of his dreams walks in. Lehmann uses a simple premise to probe the boundaries of self-control.

If you loved Serious Moonlight, try 40 Days and 40 Nights

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What they share

What 40 Days and 40 Nights is

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