Chained for Life

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Chained for Life

2019,

1h 31m,

Drama

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An actress bonds with a young man who has a severe facial deformity.

Critics Consensus

Darkly funny and impressively ambitious, Chained for Life is as unpredictable as it is original.

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Simran Hans

Observer (UK)

Oct 27, 2019

4/5

[A] wonky, charming satire...

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Josh Slater-Williams

Little White Lies

Oct 24, 2019

4/5

A sharp movie about moviemaking, with welcome surreal touches that are best left unspoiled.

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Leslie Felperin

Guardian

Oct 24, 2019

4/5

This low-budget film written and directed by Aaron Schimberg is almost every kind of strange, and yet it has an amiable warmth and an inexhaustible reserve of originality that make it compelling as hell.

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Vadim Rizov

Filmmaker Magazine

Jan 5, 2023

Eccentric but not too-determinedly-so quasi-comedy in the movie-about-making-a-movie subgenre. Schimberg doesn’t try to disguise his reference points...

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Jason Adams

The Film Experience

Jul 6, 2021

It's less like a dream than it is a trippy sniff off the fumes of a failed suicide by carbon-monoxide poisoning - that's a compliment, by the way!

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John Beifuss

Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)

Jun 22, 2020

3.5/4

The film works as both an affectionate movie-industry comedy (with references to Franju and 'Freaks') and as a provocative inquiry into the parameters of onscreen 'representation.'

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Sep 14, 2018

An in-depth look at beauty in the film industry that makes you think about how we view the disabled and the norms of Hollywood. Adam is endearing, and the return Charlie Korsmo to the big screen is nothing to be missed!

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Synopsis

An actress bonds with a young man who has a severe facial deformity.

Director: Aaron Schimberg
Producer: Daniel Patrick Carbone, Vanessa McDonnell, Matthew Petock, Jane Schoenbrun, Zachary Shedd
Screenwriter: Aaron Schimberg
Distributor: Kino Lorber
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Sep 11, 2019, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Dec 10, 2019
Box Office (Gross USA): $17.4K
Runtime: 1h 31m

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