If you loved She's Gotta Have It, try Sixteen Candles
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.
What they share
Theyboth carry the tender mood tag, and they sit in Comedy / Romance territory. If that's the register that drew you to She's Gotta Have It, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
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What Sixteen Candles is
Suburban Chicago, birthday candles on a forgotten cake. A high school hallway separates Samantha from popular Jake, and nerdy Ted from rejection. Hughes pins adolescent vulnerability to the wall.

