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Graduate medical school, you're a doctor, but finish film school – you're just a dweeb. You're not qualified to do much more than brew coffee or maybe make movies, and it's not like Hollywood studio execs are biting at the chomp to hire a batch of green and eager new film geeks to write, direct, or produce their scheduled slate of upcoming projects. So what do you do? How do you break down the doors of Hollywood? Here's the bad news. If you're a director, it's almost impossible. And just because you shot a great student short film doesn't mean much. Nobody gets to…
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Movie Genre: Comedy / Drama Screenplay Time: 110 Minutes Inciting Incident Henry (Danny Glover) asks Royal’s (Gene Hackman) estranged wife Etheline (Anjelica Huston) to marry him. After Royal is told of the pending engagement, he hatches a plan to win back Etheline and his family. (00:16:10)
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