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Archie's Final Project (2009)

Archie's Final Project poster
Original title
My Suicide
Directed by
David Lee Miller
Genre
comedy drama, teen film, coming-of-age film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 45m
Rating
6.1 of 10 from 46 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A teenager announces he will film his own suicide for a school project. The film follows his interactions with classmates and family as he navigates the fallout from this declaration.

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What happens

Archie's Final Project (also known by its original title My Suicide) is a 2011 American comedy-drama film produced and directed by David Lee Miller and written by Miller, Eric J. Adams, and Gabriel Sunday based on a story written by Miller and Jordan J. Miller. Sunday also served as second unit director, additional camera operator, and music editor along with starring in, co-editing, and co-producing the film. It won the best feature film prize for the 2009 Berlin International Film Festival's youth film section Generation 14plus. Music producers Jimmy Iovine and Polly Anthony and actor Harold Ramis served as executive producers. It received a limited theatrical release in the United States on September 23, 2011, and was released to home media on December 6, 2011. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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