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An Urban Tragedy

1989-01-01 · 9 min · Not rated

Comedy

The Weezers live in a big-city tenement. Ethel smokes cigars and crunches her beer can when she's finished; Earl shuffles and stutters, reduced to slobbering slavery. When a cockroach disturbs their marital bliss, it's all out war, climaxing in a display of witty special effects.

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Directors
Wendell Morris
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Loyola Marymount University School of Film and Television
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United States of America
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