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director: Todd Haynes
actor: Carrie Brownstein Cate Blanchett Cory Michael Smith Jake Lacy John Magaro Kyle Chandler Rooney Mara Sarah Paulson
writer: Phyllis Nagy

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Set in 1950s New York, a department-store clerk who dreams of a better life falls for an older, married woman.

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