Appropriate Behavior is a 2014 romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Desiree Akhavan in her feature directorial debut. A co-production between the United States and the United Kingdom, the film stars Akhavan as Shirin, a bisexual Persian American woman in Brooklyn struggling to rebuild her life after breaking up with her girlfriend Maxine (Rebecca Henderson). The cast also includes Scott Adsit, Halley Feiffer, Anh Duong, Hooman Majd, Arian Moayed and Aimee Mullins. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 18, 2014. It was released in the United States on January 16, 2015, by Gravitas Ventures and in the United Kingdom on March 6, 2015, by Peccadillo Pictures.
