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Tusk (2014)
Director: Kevin Smith Run Time: 102 min. Rating: R Release Year: 2014
Starring: Ashley Greene, Haley Joel Osment, Jennifer Schwalbach Smith, Justin Long, Ralph Garman
Country: Canada, United States
Language: English
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About the film:
When his best friend and podcast co-host goes missing in the backwoods of Canada, a young guy joins forces with his friend’s girlfriend to search for him.
“a weird, unpredictable movie that still feels like only Smith could have made it.”
—Eric Kohn for IndieWire
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About the filmmaker:
Ever since his emergence onto the national stage, writer-director Kevin Smith became the idol of aspiring filmmakers everywhere when his independent feature Clerks (1994)—made for a startlingly low sum of $27,575—earned awards at both the Cannes and Sundance film festivals and went on to become a wild success in limited art house release.
Self-referential to a fault, Smith uses his films to expand his fictional universe populated with a regular cast of characters who eventually crossed over into other mediums, including comic books and an animated television series. Some of Smith’s most well-known films include Chasing Amy (1997), Dogma (1999) and Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back (2001). As a podcaster, Smith cohosts several shows on his SModcast Podcast Network, including SModcast, Fatman Beyond, and the live show Hollywood Babble-On.
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