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High Life (2009)

High Life poster
Directed by
Gary Yates
Genre
comedy film
Country
Canada
Runtime
1h 20m
Rated
16
Rating
6.0 of 10 from 56 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

In the 1980s, four desperate men plan a bank robbery to fix their money problems. Their scheme gets complicated by their own incompetence and bad luck.

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What happens

High Life is a 2009 Canadian film based on the stage play by Lee MacDougall, written by Lee MacDougall and directed by Gary Yates. Starring Timothy Olyphant, Stephen Eric McIntyre, Joe Anderson and Rossif Sutherland, High Life is a comedic heist movie from the flip-side of the '80s consumer dream. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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