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Not Waving But Drowning (2012)

Not Waving But Drowning poster
Original title
Not Waving but Drowning
Directed by
Devyn Waitt
Genre
drama film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 40m
Rating
6.1 of 10 from 15 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A young woman moves from a small town to New York City. She misses her best friend back home but starts to build new connections in the city.

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What happens

Not Waving But Drowning is a 2012 drama film directed by Devyn Waitt, starring Vanessa Ray and Megan Guinan. A small town girl (Vanessa Ray) moves to New York City, and laments being separated from her best friend (Megan Guinan) while forging rewarding new relationships in director Devyn Waitt's feature-length companion piece to the short film The Most Girl Part of You (2011). The film premiered in the 2012 Champs-Élysées Film Festival in Paris, France. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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