Rita Karin’s Typical Vibe
2 films — measured, dark, harrowing, layered, quiet

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Rita Karin has 2 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 1990s.

Stingo, a young writer, moves to Brooklyn in 1947 to begin work on his first novel. As he becomes friendly with Sophie and her lover Nathan, he learns that she is a Holocaust survivor. Flashbacks reveal her harrowing story, from pre-war prosperity to Auschwitz. In the present, Sophie and Nathan's relationship increasingly unravels as Stingo grows closer to Sophie and Nathan's fragile mental state becomes ever more apparent.
Dir. Alan J. Pakula · With Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Peter MacNicol

Womanising, right-wing Dan Hanson and quiet, liberal Lorie Bryer work for the Baltimore Sun. Rivals for the job of new writer of a vacant column, the paper ends up instead printing their very different opinions alongside each other, which leads to a similarly combative local TV show. At the same time their initial indifference to each other looks like it may evolve into something more romantic.
Dir. Marisa Silver, Ken Kwapis · With Kevin Bacon, Elizabeth Perkins, Nathan Lane