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Films about people who get attached and refuse to be put down. Some of them never left home in the first place, and some met you last Tuesday and already know where you live.

The first kind never cut the cord. Edith Bouvier Beale and her daughter Edie share a crumbling East Hampton mansion with cats and raccoons in Grey Gardens, talking over each other to the camera, and there are hints that Edie came home twenty-four years earlier so her mother could look after her. Hubert in I Killed My Mother cannot stand his mother's tacky sweaters or her guilt trips, and cannot stop thinking about her either. Erika Kohut is a piano teacher nearing middle age in The Piano Teacher, and she still lives with her domineering mother.

Family at least comes with a reason. The second kind picks a stranger. Steven Kovak slips the cable guy fifty dollars for free cable in The Cable Guy and pretends to be interested in his work, and Chip takes it as the start of a best friendship. Bob Wiley in What About Bob? has to talk himself out of his own front door, yet when his therapist leaves for a month at a New Hampshire lake, Bob tricks the phone operator into giving up the address and gets himself on a bus. In Ingrid Goes West, Ingrid mistakes likes for friendship, moves to Los Angeles and works her way into the life of the Instagram influencer she follows. Alex spends one weekend with a married lawyer in Fatal Attraction, and will not let go of him. Maybe don't give anyone here your address.