| Buying the Cow | |
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| Directed by | Walt Becker |
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| Cinematography | Nancy Schreiber |
| Edited by | Tony Lombardo |
| Music by | Andrew Gross |
| Distributed by | Destination Films |
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Running time | 88 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
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David is too afraid to commit to his girlfriend Sarah, who is pressuring him to get married. While she goes away to New York for work for two months, David's friends persuade him to experience the dating scene one more time. Meanwhile, David's womanizing friend Mike gets drunk one night and mistakenly believes he has had sex with a man, and afterwards makes several awkward attempts to come out of the closet, even though he is not really gay.
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