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Not to be confused with the 1993 U.S. film with an identical title, this German romantic comedy, Singles, has a vaguely similar theme. This film follows the romantic travails of Mickey (Helmut Zierl) a hopelessly domestic young man whose life falls completely apart when his girlfriend Gilla Claudia Demarmels) kicks him out of the apartment they share because she is seeing another man. He finds a place to live, but feels utterly unable to cope on his own and lives on in the forlorn hope that his ex will compassionately move in with him so that he can somehow manage. When he confesses this to his best friend Archer (Leonard Lansink), along with supportive noises, he receives his friends complete puzzlement. When it becomes clear to him that Gilla won't rescue him, he tries to get involved in the scene at singles bars, hoping to pick someone, anyone, up, but he is ignored. He also tries to engage with others in a group therapy scene, but here, too, he is ignored or, worse, patronized.