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A Brand New You (2014)

A Brand New You poster
Directed by
Shawn Whitney, Kathryn Palmateer
Genre
comedy film
Country
Canada
Runtime
1h 23m
Rated
NR
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A widower comes up with a poorly thought out plan to clone his late wife. He gets his roommates involved in the scheme.

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What happens

A Brand New You is a 2014 Canadian dark comedy film, directed by Kathryn Palmateer and Shawn Whitney, and starring Freya Ravensbergen, Manuel Rodriguez-Saenz, Clinton Lee Pontes and Vanessa Burns. The film was described as "a low-key comedy about a widower (Manuel Rodriguez-Saenz) who enlists his roommates (Clinton Lee Pontes, Freya Ravensbergen) in a half-baked scheme to clone his dead wife". A Brand New You is considered a microbudget film and was produced on a shoestring. It was shot in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is the first feature film of married couple directors Kathryn Palmateer and Shawn Whitney. The film was hailed an filmmaking achievement by critics and garnered accolades for the director as a first feature. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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