NOT LIKE THAT documents the end of a friendship and how we remember friendships after they fail. Shelley and Marjorie are childhood best friends who have moved to New York City to pursue careers as a painter and a writer, respectively, in the early 1990s. When Shelley makes the decision to get married and move out of the city, Marjorie struggles to bring herself to be happy for Shelley for pursuing a life of domesticity that Marjorie so roundly rejected when she came out as gay to her parents and left for New York after college. Shelley is the one thing anchoring Marjorie to her old life. Shelley contends with her divergent futures, feeling pulled between the stability of marriage and domesticity and the personal fulfillment of her artistic career. As their friendship begins to crumble over the course of the month leading up to Shelley’s engagement party, we see memories of their adolescence and young adulthood in their hometown of Brunswick, Maine and in their early days in New York City. Marjorie and Shelley’s friendship comes to a head after a drunken and confused speech at the engagement party and an explosive fight in a country club bathroom. When they are reunited by a chance encounter, they are forced to accept that despite apology letters and assurances of forgiveness, things can never really go back to the way they were.