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The Sterile Cuckoo (1969)
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Two students from neighboring colleges in upstate New York are swept up in a tragic romantic interlude calling for a maturity of vision beyond their experience of capabilities. Pookie Adams - a kooky, lonely misfit with no family and no place to go, insists on calling all those who won't participate in her world, "weirdos," clings to a quiet studious Jerry, who has the ability to make a choice of living in Pookie's private little world or be accepted by the society that Pookie rejects. Unwittingly, it is through their awkward relationship that Pookie actually prepares Jerry for the world of "weirdos" that she doesn't fit into or wish to be apart of.
Style:
sentimental, touching, humorous, realistic, feel good, semi serious
Audience:
date night
Plot:
college, college life, opposites attract, introspection, couple relations, misfit, student life, young lovers, coming of age, unlikely couple, young couple, college student, father daughter estrangement, autumn, sexual content, young adult, bus, youth, love and romance, couples, self discovery, lifestyle, human nature, love, loneliness ...
Time:
60s, 1960s
Place:
usa, new york, new york state
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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67%
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Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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semi serious, witty, sentimental, humorous, talky ...
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Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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65%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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