Adventureland, Greg Mottola, 2009

Mottola's stoned carnival workers, both intellectually and chronologically, fall somewhere between Richard Linklater's varsity slackers and Whit Stillman's neurotic Fourierists. More importantly, they reside in the same casual, lived-in space that makes this naturalist Summer's tale as eminently watchable as either Dazed & Confused or Metropolitan.