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Appiness (2018)

Appiness poster
Directed by
Eli Batalion
Genre
comedy
Country
Canada
Runtime
1h 22m
Rated
G
Rating
4.0 of 10 from 3 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man loses his corporate job and teams up with an old high school friend to launch a tech startup. They chase entrepreneurial dreams through the ups and downs of building a business.

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What happens

Appiness is a Canadian comedy film written, directed and produced by Eli Batalion. The film stars Eli Batalion as Eric Newman, who, upon being laid off from his stuffy corporate job, starts to pursue tech entrepreneurial start-up dreams with long-lost high school friend Raj Patel (Varun Saranga). The film premiered on the festival circuit in 2018, with its domestic premiere at the Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma in 2019. Appiness was released by distributor Gravitas Ventures in early 2020. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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