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The Speed of Life (2007)

The Speed of Life poster
Directed by
Edward Radtke
Genre
drama film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 25m
Rating
10.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A bored teenager in New York City steals video cameras from tourists. He then uses the footage on them to build fantasies that let him escape his own life.

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What happens

The Speed of Life is an American drama film, directed by Ed Radtke and released in 2007. The film stars Jeremy Allen White as Sammer, a bored teenager in New York City who steals video cameras from tourists and retreats into fantasies based on the footage he finds on them. The film premiered on August 30, 2007 at the 64th Venice International Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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