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Manic Picnic Dream Girls

Moody Movies: Strike! (1998), As Good As It Gets (1997), The Room Next Door (2024), We Live In Time (2024), Picnic At Hanging Rock (1975)


Welcome back to Moody Movie Club! In this episode, they revisit one of the best teen comedies that no one has seen, wish the rom had been taken out of the com, ask how it is possible to sit beside death, get temporarily tricked by a hollow gimmick, and feel the cynicism creeping in.


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