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The Joy of Positivity: Search and Destroy (1995)

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A decade after 1985's After Hours, Griffin Dunne, Rosanna Arquette, and supporting player/executive producer Martin Scorsese reunited for the blisteringly bleak 1995 comedy Search and Destroy. Painter-turned-director David Salle's Michael Almereyda-written adaptation of Howard Korder's play functions as a spiritual sequel to Scorsese's Reagan-era masterpiece of bohemian existential angst and anxiety.

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