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Sleeping Beauties (1999)

Sleeping Beauties poster
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

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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