Appropriate Behavior (2014)

Directors

Desiree Akhavan

Cast

Aimee Mullins, Anh Duong, Arian Moayed, Desiree Akhavan, Halley Feiffer, Justine Cotsonas, Olan Montgomery, Scott Adsit

The story

Shirin, a young bisexual woman and the daughter of wealthy Persian immigrants, moves out of the Park Slope apartment she shared with her girlfriend Maxine after they break up. Flashbacks reveal that Maxine, who is a lesbian and estranged from her family, resented Shirin's reluctance to come out to her traditional parents, while Shirin felt pressured to live up to Maxine's expectations. After a birthday party for Maxine, the two women broke up following a heated argument over their contrasting worldviews, with Maxine accusing Shirin of having a codependent relationship with her parents, calling her a "closet case", and dismissing her…

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