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Licorice Pizza (2021)

★ 7.0 · 2,631 ratings on TMDB
Licorice Pizza poster★ 7.0

The story of Gary Valentine and Alana Kane growing up, running around and going through the treacherous navigation of first love in the San Fernando Valley, 1973.

DirectorPaul Thomas Anderson
CastAlana Haim, Benny Safdie, Bradley Cooper, Christine Ebersole, Cooper Hoffman, John Michael Higgins
GenresComedy, Drama, Romance
The emergence reading

Licorice Pizza 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

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Same subject, different rung

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

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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