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True Blue and Dreamy

True Blue and Dreamy

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"A surreal meditation on a cigarette billboard using a very strange ballerina as an allegory for something or other Indescribably funny." - Seattle International Film Festival, 1978. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.

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Budget

$--

Revenue

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Status

Released

Original Language

English

Runtime

13 mins

Rating

2/10

Release Date

01 January 1974

Country

United States of America

Cast

George Kuchar

George Kuchar

Mike Kuchar

Mike Kuchar

Barbara Linkevitch

Barbara Linkevitch

Ainslie Pryor

Ainslie Pryor

Mark Ellinger

Mark Ellinger

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