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Seconds (1966)

Ruined Childhoods

English - April 07, 2020 09:04 - 54 minutes - 51.2 MB - ★★★★ - 17 ratings
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When Hollywood’s rom-com leading man Rock Hudson wanted to take on an acting challenge that would make people take him seriously as an actor, he paired up with The Manchurian Candidate director John Frankenheimer and made Seconds, about a middle-aged man who chooses to be “rebooted” as a younger man with a different life. The film was booed right out of Cannes and caused audience members to become physically ill, but has since become a cult classic that is now considered brilliantly prescient in its ideas about identity and society’s impact on how we live our lives.


Next episode: Major League (1989)


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