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Survival Skills

Play trailer Poster for Survival Skills 2020,  1h 24m,  Comedy Play Trailer Watchlist
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88% Tomatometer 24 Reviews 56% Popcornmeter Fewer than 50 Ratings
A seemingly perfect policeman lands in over his head when he tries to resolve a case of domestic violence.
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Critics Consensus

Led by a strong starring performance from Vayu O'Donnell, Survival Skills takes a singularly strange -- but mostly satisfying -- look at law enforcement.

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Randy Myers San Jose Mercury News Dec 4, 2020
3.5/4
A head trip that shoots off into unexpected and topical directions. Go to Full Review
Mark Hanson Slant Magazine Nov 29, 2020
2.5/4
Survival Skills feels like something you'd stumble upon on Adult Swim circa 2014, sandwiched between Too Many Cooks and reruns of Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! Go to Full Review
Richard Whittaker Austin Chronicle Nov 10, 2020
3/5
None of this would work without a stunning and nuanced performance by O'Donnell. Go to Full Review
C.H. Newell Father Son Holy Gore Nov 22, 2022
3.5/5
Survival Skills is a story about how even a so-called ‘good cop’ can’t do the right thing when they want to because the system was never designed to work for the most vulnerable in the first place. Go to Full Review
Steven Warner In Review Online Jun 5, 2021
Armstrong has an ace up his sleeve in the film's final ten minutes, removing a lot of the inherent, palate-deadening bitterness in the process. Go to Full Review
Jonathan DeHaan Nightmare on Film Street Mar 1, 2021
9/10
Quinn Armstrong perfectly recreates the feeling of an over-produced (half-baked) instructional video that thinks the world's complicated problems are as simple as programming a Toshiba VCR Go to Full Review
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Cast & Crew

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Quinn Armstrong

Director

Vayu O'Donnell

Jim Williams

Ericka Kreutz

Allison Lohmann

Emily Chisholm

Leah Jenning

Stacy Keach

The Narrator

Spencer Garrett

The Chief

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Survival Skills

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Movie Info

Synopsis A seemingly perfect policeman lands in over his head when he tries to resolve a case of domestic violence.
Director
Quinn Armstrong
Producer
Michael Orion Downing, Colin West
Screenwriter
Quinn Armstrong
Distributor
Cranked Up Films
Genre
Comedy
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Nov 13, 2020, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Dec 4, 2020
Runtime
1h 24m
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