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Shirkers

  • 20182018
  • TV-14TV-14
  • 1h 37m
IMDb RATING
7.4/10
5.1K
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Shirkers (2018)
In 1992, teenager Sandi Tan and her friends Sophie and Jasmine shot Singapore's first indie-a road movie called "Shirkers"-with their enigmatic American mentor, Georges Cardona. Sandi wrote the script and played the lead, a killer named S. After shooting wrapped, Georges vanished with all the footage! 20 years later, the 16mm cans are recovered in New Orleans, sending Sandi-now a novelist in Los Angeles-on a new personal odyssey across two continents and many media: 16mm, digital, Hi8, Super8, slides, animation and handwritten letters.
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A woman explores the events surrounding a film she and her friends began making with a mysterious stranger decades ago.A woman explores the events surrounding a film she and her friends began making with a mysterious stranger decades ago.A woman explores the events surrounding a film she and her friends began making with a mysterious stranger decades ago.
IMDb RATING
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5.1K
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  • Director
    • Sandi Tan
  • Writer
    • Sandi Tan
  • Stars
    • Jasmine Kin Kia Ng
    • Philip Cheah
    • Sophia Siddique Harvey
Top credits
  • Director
    • Sandi Tan
  • Writer
    • Sandi Tan
  • Stars
    • Jasmine Kin Kia Ng
    • Philip Cheah
    • Sophia Siddique Harvey
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    • 39User reviews
    • 42Critic reviews
    • 88Metascore
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    • Awards
      • 8 wins & 32 nominations

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    Sandi Tan in Shirkers (2018)
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    Sandi Tan and Georges Cardona in Shirkers (2018)
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    Georges Cardona in Shirkers (2018)
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    Sandi Tan in Shirkers (2018)
    Sandi Tan in Shirkers (2018)
    Sandi Tan in Shirkers (2018)
    Jasmine Kin Kia Ng, Sandi Tan, and Sophia Siddique Harvey in Shirkers (2018)
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    Jasmine Kin Kia Ng
    • Self
    • (as Jasmine Ng)
    Philip Cheah
    • Self
    Sophia Siddique Harvey
    • Self
    Sharon Siddique
    • Self
    Fung Liang Foo
    • Self
    Pohshon Choy
    • Self
    Yek Keak Tay
    • Self
    Ben Harrison
    • Self
    Grace Dane Mazur
    • Self
    Stephen Tyler
    • Self
    Georges Cardona
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    • (uncredited)
    Sandi Tan
    Sandi Tan
    • Self
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Sandi Tan
    • Writer
      • Sandi Tan
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    • Trivia
      In 2018, Sandi Tan premiered her film at the Sundance Film Festival and earned the World Cinema Documentary Directing Award. She was the second Singapore-born filmmaker to win. (The first went to another Tan: Kirsten Tan, for Pop Aye, the previous year.)
    • Connections
      Features The Girl Can't Help It (1956)
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      Tick Tick
      Written and performed by Weish

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    User reviews39

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    Top review
    7/10
    Wild adventure about dreams and illusion
    A director explores the myth of Singapore's independent cinema: Shirkers, a film made by her and her friends, with the help of a mysterious man.

    The atmosphere of this documentary is very interesting, mixing drama with the mood of a serial killer tv show.

    It's a well-structured portrait of a young woman dreams, the ambition to change the concept of cinema, in a country with strong censorship and restrictions, as was Singapore in the 90s, and how someone with a perverse and vicious mind can ruin a so beloved project, and traumatize everyone involved.

    Some critics and general public think it's pretentious, I disagree with that opinion, it's not intended to increase the protagonist/director's (Sandi Tan) ego, but rather to show how a group of creative minds can be manipulated when they are not yet mature enough to realize how real life works.
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    • Feb 11, 2021

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    • Release date
      • October 26, 2018 (United States)
    • Countries of origin
      • United States
      • United Kingdom
    • Official site
      • Official site
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Shirkers: Bộ Phim Bị Đánh Cắp
    • Production companies
      • Shirkers
      • Cinereach
      • Doc Society
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      1 hour 37 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.78 : 1

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