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What’s it like to dedicate your life to work that won’t be completed in your lifetime? Fifteen years ago, filmmaker David Licata focused on four projects and the people behind them in an effort to answer this universal question.
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- Family movie night
- Friends night
- Teens
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- You want something to laugh at
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Audiences 73GoodWatch 72
IMDb7.3
Running time
1 h 30 min
A typical length for documentaries, −6 min on the typical 96
typical 9690Half of all documentaries run 89–107 min.
Reach
Streams in 1 country, rent or buy in 3 more
Released
2020
September 24, 2020
6 years ago
Genre
DocumentaryLanguage
English
Original language
Directing · 1
- David Licata Director
Camera · 3
- Thomas M. Harting Director of Photography
- Wolfgang Held Director of Photography
- Andrew Bowley Director of Photography
Editing · 1
- Cabot Philbrick Editor
Sound · 1
- Stella Josephson Music
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