Movie: Alone. Life Wastes Andy Hardy
Top 4 Billed Cast
Andy Hardy (archive footage)
Betsy Booth (archive footage)
Judge Hardy (archive footage)
Emily Hardy (archive footage)
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In a deconstruction of classic Hollywood codes, using repetitive single frame images, the re-editing of teenager movies produces an intense Oedipal drama.
Release Date
1998-10-01
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5.325
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