small-town

An Orange County congressional race that has become the closest in the country currently has such a slim margin of victory that it feels more like a small-town city council contest than a race for the House of Representatives.

In the closing weeks of the campaign, Bill Clinton showed her how to do this in his appearances in small-town areas in swing states, but Harris missed the cue.

A small-town kid born out of wedlock, he moved from the rustic countryside of Vinci, 30 miles west of Florence, to the sophisticated city to make his way.

You might think of Greta Gerwig’s “Lady Bird” while watching “I Like Movies,” with its small-town teenage angst and sardonic wit, but there are shades of “Punch-Drunk Love” here, too: The writer-director Chandler Levack’s script allows his character no easy outs, leaning hard into the bitter part of bittersweet.

Rouki Sasaki, a small-town 17-year-old high school senior, has a triple-digit fastball.