Scala!!!
7.3
2024
1 hr 36 min
Documentary
This feature-length big screen documentary tells the riotous inside story of the infamous sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll repertory cinema which inspired a generation during Britain's turbulent Thatcher years.
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- Cast：
- John Waters , Adam Buxton , Stewart Lee , James O'Brien , Isaac Julien , Caroline Catz , Mary Harron
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Pretty Good
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best movie i've ever seen.
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This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.
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This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.
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