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Wild Canaries (2014)

Wild Canaries poster
Directed by
Lawrence Michael Levine
Genre
comedy thriller, LGBTQ-related film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 42m
Rating
5.1 of 10 from 12 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A woman suspects her elderly neighbor's sudden death was murder. She persuades her roommates to help investigate, which leads them into a tangle of lies and oddball characters in their Brooklyn building.

quirkyplayfullightheartedsuspensefuloffbeatdarkly comicfast-paced

What happens

Wild Canaries is an American black comedy mystery film directed, produced and written by Lawrence Michael Levine and starring Levine, Sophia Takal, Alia Shawkat, Annie Parisse, Jason Ritter and Kevin Corrigan. The film had its world premiere premiered at the South by Southwest Film Festival on March 8, 2014. The film was released in a limited release and through video on demand on February 25, 2015, courtesy of Sundance Selects. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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