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The Secret Life of Algernon is a film of genre Comedy directed by Charles Jarrott with John Cullum
The Secret Life of Algernon (1997)
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Add to a movie listThe Secret Life of Algernon is a 1997 film directed by Charles Jarrott. It stars John Cullum and Carrie-Anne Moss in an early film appearance. It won an award at the 1998 Breckenridge Festival of Film.
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Algernon is an old man who lives alone, having conversations with a porcelain cat and enjoys making things out of bones... he boils a neighbor's dead dog for the bones... and he is visited by an old friend who is dying of ailments and thus commits suicide, leaving a million dollars in a suitcase. A woman claiming to be interested in Algernon's Egyptologist great grandfather pretends to be in love with Algernon... and he almost falls for it.Actors
John Cullum
(Algernon Pendleton)
Carrie-Anne Moss
(Madge Clerisy)
Charles Durning
(Norbie Hess)
Harant Alianak
(Mahir Sulleyman)
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