The Flick
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The Flick is a 2013 play by American playwright Annie Baker, which won the Pulitzer Prize for drama. The play centers on the lives and aspirations of three employees at the last movie theater in Massachusetts that still uses film projectors. Despite its lengthy runtime of over three hours, The Flick garnered mostly positive reviews, with many critics praising Baker's intelligent and moving storytelling, though some found her signature use of pauses tedious. The play had a successful Off-Broadway run and later premiered in London. "The flicks" is also a British informal term for a movie theater.12
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