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Buttwhistle | |
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Directed by | Tenney Fairchild |
Written by | Tenney Fairchild |
Produced by | Greg McCollum Michael Younesi Leah Fong Tenney Fairchild |
Starring | Trevor Morgan Lio Tipton [lower-alpha 1] Elizabeth Rice Adhir Kalyan Thomas Jane |
Cinematography | Akis Konstantakopoulos |
Edited by | Nathan Cali Hovig Menakian |
Production company | M-80 Films |
Distributed by | Breaking Glass Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 93 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
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The film was released theatrically in Los Angeles on April 25, 2014. [2] [3]
Geoff Berkshire of Variety gave the film a negative review and wrote that it "actually attempts to be an emotionally resonant relationship tale, but lives down to its title by delivering nothing but inane comedy and insufferable drama." [2]
Justin Lowe of The Hollywood Reporter also gave the film a negative review and wrote that it "proves so cryptically scripted and dramatically under-powered that genre characterizations almost fail to do it justice." [3]
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