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Matthew Shear, a frequent collaborator of Noah Baumbach, makes his directorial debut with an anxiety-fueled film that wears its influences on its sleeve yet still manages to deliver a thoroughly satisfying result. Take a moment to consider how many professional opportunities would have to slip through your fingers before you would seriously entertain the idea of ​​taking a job as a babysitter for your own therapist. Director: Matthew Shear Writer: Matthew Shear Stars: Amanda Peet, Matthew Shear, Bob Balaban That should give you some idea of ​​the predicament Sam (Matthew Shear) finds himself in in the film *Fantasy Life*. Sam—a law student who was once highly promising, but whose crippling anxiety has stalled his legal career—finds himself fired from a firm where, truth be told, he was no longer asked to do much more than alphabetize boxes of long-obsolete files.  With bills piling up and a profound sense of aimlessness—a state of mind that hasn't improved since he took a mental he...