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Fifty Pills (2006)

Fifty Pills poster
Directed by
Theo Avgerinos
Genre
comedy film, comedy drama, crime film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 25m
Rated
R
Rating
4.7 of 10 from 51 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A college student struggles to pay his tuition and gets tangled up with various shady characters while trying to sell a batch of pills. His efforts lead him through a series of misadventures around New York City.

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What happens

Theo Avgerinos (born September 22, 1978, in New York City) is an American film director. His directoral debut was Fifty Pills, an independent film. Budgeted at $250,000, it featured Lou Taylor Pucci, Kristen Bell, John Hensley, Nora Zehetner, Michael Peña, Jane Lynch, Monica Keena and Eddie Kaye Thomas. Despite a generally positive review from Screen International, it received a 33% on Rotten Tomatoes. He also directed the 2015 film Americons. In 2024, his documentary Rising Hope was presented at the LightReel Film Festival, winning Best Documentary Feature. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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