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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993)
The best of the best
Star Trek at it's very best. It puts its values against darkness and dares to make it's best characters flawed. Peerless among trek.
Gretchen (2005)
Give it a shot, its worth it
A hilarious, tongue-in-cheek depiction of an awkward girl's bad-boy obsession.
I heard this referred to as "Napoleon Dynamite with a female lead." That is accurate to a point. While Gretchen does employ the subtle, dead-pan humor that is found in the utter niavety of the main character, this is where the similarities between Gretchen and Napoleon Dynamite end.
This movie uses that humor to explore and approach serious questions of suburban life in modern America and incorporates those common themes of isolation, danger seeking (by finding that exciting bad-boy) and that snowballing phenomenon of rejection that occurs in high school.
This film is slow paced, so it is not the best choice for a party, but perhaps if you have an hour and a half to appreciate this movie and its very reserved brand of dark humor, you should be pleasantly surprised!