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Films and TV shows that feel like A Long December by Counting Crows

A reflective and yearning look back at a difficult year with the quiet hope that things might finally get better.

1. The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012): It captures that precise 90s-adjacent teenage longing for growth and survival through hard winters.
2. My So-Called Life (1994): The ultimate aesthetic companion for bittersweet late-century suburban melancholy.
3. Good Will Hunting (1997): It shares the song's sentiment of bruised young men trying to figure out how to change their lives.
4. Manchester by the Sea (2016): The freezing coastal winter mirrors the heavy, lingering grief woven into the song's verses.
5. Northern Exposure (1990): Matches the gentle, reflective introspection found in Adam Duritz's lyricism.
6. Garden State (2004): Embodies the arrested development and quiet epiphany of returning home to heal.
7. Elizabethtown (2005): It blends personal failure, road trips, and bittersweet family reckonings with mid-90s adult alternative warmth.
8. The Squid and the Whale (2005): Captures the lingering ache of a family structure dissolving during cold winter months.