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A Little Stiff (1991)

A Little Stiff poster
Directed by
Caveh Zahedi
Genre
comedy film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 26m
Rated
18A
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 4 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A neurotic film student fixates on an art student after a short elevator meeting. The real people from the actual event re-enact the story on camera.

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What happens

A Little Stiff is a 1991 minimalist comedy directed by Caveh Zahedi and Greg Watkins based on true events and re-enacted by the actual participants. Caveh Zahedi plays himself as a neurotic film student who develops a crush on art student Erin McKim after a brief encounter in an elevator. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 1991, aired on the Sundance Channel and German Television Station WDR, and was released on home video by World Artists. The film was issued on DVD in 2015 as part of a box set of Zahedi's collected works called Digging My Own Grave: The Films of Caveh Zahedi. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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