'Inside Llewyn Davis' a melancholic tale about missed opportunities and failure

... a week in the winter of 1961, the quasi-musical follows Llewyn as he hopscotches between performing at a Greenwich Village club, trying to score a record contract, and bumming on couches at his friends' homes. Things weren't always like this - he ...

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