Peter Friedman’s Typical Vibe
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Peter Friedman has 9 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2010s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by Succession.
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Follow the lives of the Roy family as they contemplate their future once their aging father begins to step back from the media and entertainment conglomerate they control.
Dir. Jesse Armstrong · With Jeremy Strong, Kieran Culkin, Sarah Snook
Carol White, a Los Angeles housewife in the late 1980s, comes down with a debilitating illness with no clear diagnosis.
Dir. Todd Haynes · With Julianne Moore, Xander Berkeley, Peter Friedman

A sister and brother face the realities of familial responsibility as they begin to care for their ailing father.
Dir. Tamara Jenkins · With Laura Linney, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Philip Bosco

Having recently split from her fiancé, Allison Jones welcomes new roommate Hedra Carlson. The young women quickly form a bond, but soon Allison begins to notice not all’s well with her new tenant.
Dir. Barbet Schroeder · With Bridget Fonda, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Steven Weber

Abby is a pregnant woman with a curious new boarder in the apartment over her garage. Turns out he's heaven-sent and is speeding along the Apocalypse by bloodying rivers, egging on plagues and following scripture word for word.
Dir. Carl Schultz · With Demi Moore, Michael Biehn, Jürgen Prochnow

Michael Jennings is a genius who's hired – and paid handsomely – by high-tech firms to work on highly sensitive projects, after which his short-term memory is erased so he's incapable of breaching security. But at the end of a three-year job, he's told he isn't getting a paycheck and instead receives a mysterious envelope. In it are clues he must piece together to find out why he wasn't paid – and why he's now in hot water.
Dir. John Woo · With Ben Affleck, Aaron Eckhart, Uma Thurman

Jane Goodale has everything going for her. She's a producer on a popular daytime talk show, and is in a hot romance with the show's dashing executive producer Ray. But when the relationship goes terribly awry, Jane begins an extensive study of the male animal, including her womanizing roommate Eddie. Jane puts her studies and romantic misadventure to use as a pseudonymous sex columnist -- and becomes a sensation.
Dir. Tony Goldwyn · With Ashley Judd, Greg Kinnear, Hugh Jackman

Emma is an attractive girl in her 20s who has been blind for 20 years. A new type of eye operation partially restores her sight, but she is having problems: sometimes she doesn't "remember" what she's seen until later. One night she is awakened by a commotion upstairs. Peering out of her door, she sees a shadowy figure descending the stairs. Convinced that her neighbour has been murdered she approaches the police, only to find that she is unsure if it was just her new eyes playing tricks on her.
Dir. Michael Apted · With Madeleine Stowe, Aidan Quinn, James Remar
A black police detective must solve a strange case of a kidnapped boy and deal with a big racial protest.
Dir. Joe Roth · With Samuel L. Jackson, Julianne Moore, Edie Falco