Skills Like This

Mar 10, 2007

1h 26m

★ 5.1

Everybody Wants to be Somebody

Overview

Max Solomon faces the awful truth that he will never be a writer. So, in a desperate attempt to find his true calling, he turns to crime. In this inventive comedy, three friends have their lives turned upside down when one of them realizes that larceny might be his best skill.

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

Elsboy Entertainment

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Cast

Max

Spencer Berger

Tommy

Brian D. Phelan

Dave

Gabriel Tigerman

Lucy

Kerry Knuppe

Lauren

Jennifer Batter

Uncle Morris

Ned Bellamy

Rosa

Marta Martin

Cousin Jeramiah

Zach Cumer

Onion Dance Player

Danielle Arnold

TV Reporter

Donna Dewey

Italian Restaurant patron

Charles Thomas Doyle

Englehard

Tupper Cullum

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4.5

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4.3

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5.1

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5.7

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