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Films like EDtv.

EDtv (1999) reads as Warm, kinetic, measured comedy / satire, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.

Phileine Says Sorry (2003) poster
1. Phileine Says Sorry2003

Keeps the heightened unreality and the grounded, familiar shape — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Hush Hush Baby (2004) poster
2. Hush Hush Baby2004

Keeps the heightened unreality and the grounded, familiar shape — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Conduct Zero (2002) poster
3. Conduct Zero2002

Keeps the heightened unreality and the grounded, familiar shape — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Everybody's Famous! (2000) poster
4. Everybody's Famous!2000

Keeps the heightened unreality and the grounded, familiar shape — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Ode to the Goddess of Mercy (2004) poster
5. Ode to the Goddess of Mercy2004

Keeps the heightened unreality and the grounded, familiar shape — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Number One (2008) poster
6. Number One2008

Keeps the heightened unreality and the grounded, familiar shape — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Loafing and Camouflage: Sirens in the Aegean (2005) poster
7. Loafing and Camouflage: Sirens in the Aegean2005

Keeps the heightened unreality and the grounded, familiar shape — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Get Shorty (1995) poster
8. Get Shorty1995

Keeps the heightened unreality and the grounded, familiar shape — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Foul King (2000) poster
9. The Foul King2000

Keeps the heightened unreality and the grounded, familiar shape — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Bring It On (2000) poster
10. Bring It On2000

Keeps the heightened unreality and the grounded, familiar shape — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Next Friday (2000) poster
11. Next Friday2000

Keeps the heightened unreality and the grounded, familiar shape — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Baker (2007) poster
12. The Baker2007

Keeps the heightened unreality and the grounded, familiar shape — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

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