If you loved The Out-of-Towners, try The Lonely Guy

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

Both films are directed by Arthur Hiller, and they both carry the bittersweet, outsider mood tags, and they sit in Comedy territory. If that's the register that drew you to The Out-of-Towners, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What The Lonely Guy is

Another entry in the long line of rom-coms where sadness somehow smells like roses. After catching his girlfriend with someone else, a greeting card poet stumbles through a parade of bad dates and worse advice. It mistakes despair for whimsy, but at least the protagonist never gets a stapler stuck in his head.

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