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Chemistry lessons

Over Skype, Animals director Sophie Hyde and I are listing off all the films with prominent female friendships we remember. There’s Thelma and Louise. Beaches. All About Eve. Frances Ha...

We laugh. The truth is, there just hasn’t been that many.

is based on the novel of the same name by Emma Jane Unsworth about two best friends — Laura (played here by Holliday Grainger) and Tyler (Alia Shawkat) — plodding along in a hedonistic lifestyle of drinking, drugs and partying,

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