Those People
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A melancholic portrait of a young gay man navigating competing emotional attachments and the weight of friendship against romantic possibility on the Upper East Side.
On Manhattan's gilded Upper East Side, a young gay painter is torn between an obsession with his infamous best friend and a promising new romance with an older foreign pianist.
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