Sleeping Beauties (1999)
- Directed by
- Jamie Babbit
- Genre
- romantic comedy, LGBTQ-related film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 13 min
- Rating
- 4.0 of 10 from 5 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A morgue beautician struggles to move on from her ex-girlfriend. This short comedy follows her strange job and her attempts at healing.
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What happens
Sleeping Beauties is a 1999 short comedy film directed by Jamie Babbit. It premiered at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival. It stars Sarah Lassez as a morgue beautician trying to get over her ex-girlfriend, played by Radha Mitchell. Babbit made the film with help from David Fincher and Michael Douglas. It played at several film festivals during 1998 and 1999, and was later distributed on a DVD collection of short films by production company POWER UP. Babbit won a Channel 4 award for the film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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