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Coming-of-age movies for the second act
Nobody warns you there's a second adolescence. These are films about people mid-career, mid-marriage, or mid-collapse, who still have growing up to do, sometimes funny, sometimes brutal, and always about the moment you realize the life you have and the life you meant to have need a conversation.
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Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
2014 · dir. Alejandro G. Iñárritu
🍅 91%★ 7.7drama · comedyMax













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