The Understudy (1976)
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- Australia
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How it feels
A struggling actor takes a job as an understudy on a film set. The movie he is in becomes a strange mirror of his own life.
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What happens
The Understudy is a 1976 Australian television film directed by Eric Luithle and starring John McTernan, Jeanie Drynan, Don Barkham, and Ivar Kants. It is about a film within a film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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