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A wry, introspective coming-of-age comedy about a socially awkward teenage cinephile navigating friendship, grief, and self-awareness in early-2000s suburban Ontario.
Socially inept 17-year-old cinephile Lawrence Kweller gets a job at a video store, where he forms a complicated friendship with his older female manager.
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