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The Best of Me (2014)

★ 7.5 · 2,686 ratings on TMDB

You never forget your first love.

The Best of Me poster★ 7.5

A pair of former high school sweethearts reunite after many years when they return to visit their small hometown.

DirectorMichael Hoffman
CastCaroline Goodall, Clarke Peters, Gerald McRaney, James Marsden, Jon Tenney, Liana Liberato
GenresDrama, Romance
The emergence reading

The Best of Me keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same rung, same subject

Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001)E8/E9Back to the Future (1985)E8/E9Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)E8/E9Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011)E8/E9Se7en (1995)E8/E9Iron Man (2008)E8/E9

Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

Origin: Spirits of the Past (2006)E12/E13 · Drama, Romance

Same people

Shared director or cast.

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