Career Girls(1997)
All Hannah wanted was a roommate... instead she got a best friend.
A young college student in London moves into a flat and becomes best friends with a flatmate; the former moves into her own flat 4 years later but 6 years after their parting, the former returns to London to pay the latter a visit.
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Hannah Mills
Ricky Burton
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