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Scala!!!(2024)
Status: Released
Date: 2024-01-05
78%
9 Votes
Time: 1h 36m
Or, the Incredibly Strange Rise and Fall of the World's Wildest Cinema and How It Influenced a Mixed-up Generation of Weirdos and Misfits
Overview:
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.
Languages: English.
Countries:
United Kingdom
ProductionCompanies: 
Fifty Foot Woman
Channel X
Movie: Scala!!!
Top 10 Billed Cast
John Waters
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Adam Buxton
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Stewart Lee
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James O'Brien
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Isaac Julien
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Caroline Catz
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Mary Harron
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Beeban Kidron
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Princess Julia
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Kim Newman
Self
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