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CLARINET

By | January 2006

Hammering together despair and frustration with a cinematic nail gun, North Carolina director DJ Summitt follows up his Troma-distributed “Doomed to Failure” with a downbeat experimental short that makes “Taxi Driver” looks like a Tony Robbins motivational tape…

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CLARINET

Hammering together despair and frustration with a cinematic nail gun, North Carolina director DJ Summitt follows up his Troma-distributed “Doomed to...

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