Movies like Nothing in Common

“Nothing in Common (1986) is a United States 1980s comedy-drama that frames professional ambition against sudden domestic rupture. It stages an advertising executive's collision with his parents' divorce through intimacy-minded blocking, register-shift performances, and warm chiaroscuro-inflected interiors. The film argues that personal identity is negotiated in small domestic admissions, offering a culturally resonant study of late-1980s careerist masculinity.”