High Life (2009) 6.1
Four hapless junkies plan to rob a bank. Director:Gary Yates |
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High Life (2009) 6.1
Four hapless junkies plan to rob a bank. Director:Gary Yates |
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Stephen Eric McIntyre | ... |
Bug
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| Timothy Olyphant | ... |
Dick
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| Joe Anderson | ... | ||
| Rossif Sutherland | ... |
Billy
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| Jon Ted Wynne | ... |
Strung-Out Doctor
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Steve Ratzlaff | ... |
Prison Guard
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| Mark McKinney | ... |
Jeremy
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Ernesto Griffith | ... |
Ken
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| Kelly Wolfman | ... |
Lynn
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| Turk Scatliff | ... |
Jamie
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| Leigh Enns | ... |
Addict 1
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| Will Woytowich | ... |
Addict 2
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Susan Kelso | ... |
Addict 3
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Harry Nelken | ... |
Addict 4
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Tracy Beemer | ... |
Nurse
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It's 1983, and hopeless junkie Dick gets an unwelcome visit from the past - his seriously sleazy former cellmate, Bug, to be precise. Bug requires a crash course in the 80s: different music, different drugs, and machines in walls that dispense money. The latter development gives Dick an idea. Written by Anonymous
This is low down fun. It has a very well-scripted, plotted, and thought through feel to it and there really are worse ways to send your time.
It reminded us a lot of Australian cinema, where losers just keep on losing but just more and more outrageously, and it is a film that makes you laugh mostly 'cos it ain't you.
All the characters are exactly that, characters, and all of them are nicely done. Everything from the get go just works and the take on the 80s is pitch perfect - no Reaganomics and Wall Street here, this is 70s hangover time to perfection.
A fun little movie with heart, drugs, and great, great incompetence...