The Green Mile
Both films find moral weight in ordinary lives and use patient, understated scenes to reveal compassion; Certain Women stays with everyday distances rather than introducing The Green Mile’s supernatural power and prison drama.
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Certain Women
Three strong-willed women strive to forge their own paths amidst the wide-open plains of the American Northwest: a lawyer forced to subdue a troubled client; a wife and mother whose plans to construct her dream home reveal fissures in her marriage; and a lonely ranch hand who forms an ambiguous bond with a young law student.
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What it’s about — and how it feels
Certain Women follows three women moving through the wide-open American Northwest, each negotiating work, marriage or a connection that resists easy definition. Kelly Reichardt builds the film from quiet encounters and unspoken disappointments, letting the landscape’s scale sharpen the distance between what the women want and what their lives allow.
Quiet, observational storytellingWomen navigating constrained livesSparse dialogue and unresolved feelingsRural Northwest landscapes
Where it stands
#5
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Details
- Directed by
- Kelly Reichardt
- Runtime
- 1h 47m
- Starring
- Laura Dern, Kristen Stewart, Michelle Williams
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More on your wavelength
Three titles that echo something distinctive in this one, with a quick note on the connection.
About Time
Both are attentive to small choices and the value of being present with other people, though Certain Women treats connection as fragile and often unspoken, unlike About Time’s time-travel device and warmer romantic-comedy structure.
The Holiday
Both follow women seeking a change of circumstance and intimacy, but Certain Women keeps its encounters muted and open-ended, far from The Holiday’s festive setting, home swap and buoyant romantic plotting.