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American Movie

Rating:R (for language and some drug content)
Genre:Documentary
Release Date:November 5, 1999
Running time:107 minutes
Cast:Mark Borchardt, Mike Schank
Director:Chris Smith
Producer:Sarah Price, Chris Smith
Writer:Mark Borchardt
Distributor:Sony Pictures Classics

Description: An account of a Midwestern filmmaker's effort to make an independent picture. Mark Borchardt is passionate about cinema, and his dream project is a film called "Northwestern". But he is serious debt, and decides that if he finishes his horror short "Coven", he will be able to finance his masterwork with the money he'll raise from video sales. His attempts to follow this plan involve his 82-year old uncle, his girlfriend and a series of dreadful jobs, but Mark will never give up.

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