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My Effortless Brilliance is a film of genre Drama directed by Lynn Shelton released in USA on 9 march 2008
My Effortless Brilliance (2008)
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Add to a movie listMy Effortless Brilliance is a 2008 independent dark comedy film directed by Lynn Shelton and starring Basil Harris, Sean Nelson, Jeanette Maus, and Calvin Reeder. The film was shot by cinematographer Benjamin Kasulke.
The film screened at such film festivals as South by Southwest and Maryland Film Festival, and was released on DVD by IFC Films in November 2009.
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