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Close-Up: an oddyssey

Close-Up: an oddyssey

Love is The Ultimate Trip.

•1h 16m•10.0/10
ComedyCrimeScience FictionMusic

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10.0/10(2)

Aspiring writer Lucy Simon embarks on a psychedelic road trip to the planet Mars with her brash, unnamed drug dealer behind the wheel in this music-driven space adventure presented entirely through the use of close-up photography.

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Production

Gatsmenta Films

Language

EN

Status

Released

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Cast

Skye Armenta

Skye Armenta

Lucy

Nick Gatsby

Nick Gatsby

Anonymous

Quinton Blanche

Quinton Blanche

Henry 'Hazmat'

Michael Alexander Lee

Johnny 'Radical'

Josh Lindquist

Goon

Mark Fleming

Goon

Jack Alejandro Young

Jack Alejandro Young

Bar Patron

Abdulhaq Alrudaini

Bar Patron

Shale Le Page

Bar Patron

Isaac C. Elliott

Bar Patron

Emma Klausner

Hippie Woman

Miriam Thomas

Hippie Woman

Lakeif Traynor

Hippie

Audrey Johnson

Hippie Woman

Domingo Maynes

Hippie

Jennifer Birdsley

Hippie Woman

Watt Bond Jr.

Hippie

Ylva Pech

Hippie Woman

Irene Leonard

Pharmacist

Jonathan Martin-Ives

Man in Car

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