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17: Manscaping: Method Acting’s Sole Benefit

Harold and Maude and Charlie Bartlett: Cat Stevens plays a central role in these films about troubled teenage boys who visit psychiatrists and then use a romantic relationship to avoid their own issues.

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16: The Lindsay Lohan Cinematic Universe

Lady Bird and Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen: Compulsive liars enter the greater New York City area rebranded with new names and newfound respect for their parents.

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14: Steve Buscemi: The Perverted Worm

Scott Pilgrim vs The World and Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle: Shy guys use their video game prowess to get through increasingly harder levels in order to get the girl.

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13: The Muffins & The HornDogs

Primary Colors and The Campaign: After facing a scandal involving a politician’s risqué cell phone conversation, a new bumbling candidate joins the race and proves to be a surprising threat.

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12: The Zuckoning

The Social Network and Swiped: Three frat boys approach a programmer with an idea for a dating app, but with some misogyny and a spectrum of arrogance, the programmer decides to take that idea into his own hands.

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11: The Emergency is Lunch

It's a Wonderful Life and Click: Angels attempt to teach men lessons on what it means to be a good man, to various degrees of success.

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09: Parkour! In the Library

The Breakfast Club and Lemonade Mouth: Five teens meet in detention and decide that this is somehow enough of a reason to form a relationship (platonic or otherwise).

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08: An Emo Fish for my Future Emo Boyfriend

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac: A series of photos makes a couple realize that they have some pretty seriously messed up people in their lives who they then try to forget in unique ways.

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07: Folk Horror is Just Scary Cottagecore

Midsommar and The Wicker Man: Our outsider heroes get a VIP pass to a folksy-commune’s hottest party of the summer, though by “hottest party of the summer” they quite literally mean setting their guests on fire.

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06: Commit Murder, not to a Relationship

Cabin in the Woods and Scream: Two movies work together to invent a new horror movie trope - acknowledging something is a trope, having other characters make fun of them saying “that’s a horror movie trope, stop being paranoid,” and having the twist be that the trope actually occurs

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05: A Series of Uncomfortable Events

The Graduate and Post Grad: College graduates struggling to find purpose after college make questionable and inarguably wrong romantic choices.

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04: Schrödinger's A.I. Love Story

Her and Smart House: Two Robots experience a midlife crisis caused by the lack of a physical body needed in order to touch the ones they love (and love to touch).

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01: Tap Dancing Over Your Feelings

La La Land and High School Musical: A romantic musical in which a couple’s love is tested when they are forced to choose between their love and their dreams.

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