bfw.doctor

Film Prescription

Tell us the mood — heartbroken, restless, snowed in, three beers deep — and we'll prescribe you something strange and obtainable. Dosage instructions included.

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Describe your symptoms

The weirder the mood, the better the prescription. Be honest, nobody's grading you.

Leave this empty:

What's the mood?

Tell us where your head's at. Details help. So does nonsense.

How weird can you handle?

Anything to avoid?

First name

City

If you give us a first name and city, that's how we'll credit you on air. Leave them blank and you stay anonymous.

We don't add you to anything. There's nothing to add you to.

Chart started

The doctor will see your mood. If yours makes the cut, the prescription gets read out on an episode.

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What happens next

Three things, in order

It lands in a real inbox

Everything filed here goes to doctor@becomingfriendswith.com, which an actual one of us actually reads.

We fill the prescription on air

One movie, why it's the right one for your specific mood, and where you can actually find it. Nothing you'd need a bootleg for.

You get credited, if you want

First name and city, or nothing at all. Your call — leave those fields blank and you're anonymous.

Calibration

The kind of thing that works

Don't ask for a genre. Tell us how the room feels.

"It's 1am, I'm not tired, and I don't want to think about my job."

Excellent chart notes

"My dad's visiting and we've run out of things to say to each other."

This one we can work with

"I want a movie where somebody kicks a guy through a window. That's the whole request."

Prescription already written

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Got something to complain about instead?

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