Mistress America (2015)

It seems an apt coincidence that in the same month that “manic pixie dream girl” becomes an official Oxford Dictionaries entry director Noah Baumbach (Greenberg, Frances Ha) releases a film that features the ultimate of its species. This exaggerated version, played by the comedically spasmodic Greta Gerwig, who co-wrote the script with partner Baumbach, is named Brooke, and the most interesting thing about her is that she’s no longer an object lesson in living zestfully for a male counterpart; the audience for her wrecker’s ball way of life is lonely college freshman Tracy (Lola Kirke), who mines Brooke’s unduly hip antics for material. 
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