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Shortbus
- Title
- Shortbus [videorecording] / ThinkFilm, Q Television Network, Fortissimo Films presents in association with Q Television ; a Process production ; produced by Howard Gertler, Tim Perell, John Cameron Mitchell ; written and directed by John Cameron Mitchell.
- Format
- DVD, Videodisc
- Edition/Version
- Unrated.
- Published/Produced
- [New York, N.Y.] : Thinkfilm, 2007, c2006.
- Description
- 1 videodisc (ca. 102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
- Cast
- Sook-Yin Lee, Paul Dawson, Lindsay Beamish, Adam Hardman, P.J. Deboy, Raphael Barker, Jay Brannan, Peter Stickles, Justin Bond.
- Credits
- Director of photography, Frank G. DeMrco ; editor, Brian A. Kates ; original score, Yo La Tengo ; costume designers, Kurt and Bart ; production designer, Jody Asnes.
- System details
- DVD ; region 1 ; widescreen (1.78:1) presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround, digitally mastered.
- Language
- In English with optional French or Spanish subtitles. Closed-captioned.
- Summary
- An exploration into the lives of several characters living in New York City as they navigate the comic and tragic intersections between love and sex. Male and female, straight and gay, they find one another -- and eventually themselves -- when they all converge at a weekly underground salon called "Shortbus," a mad collision of art, music, politics, and carnality.
- Notes
- DVD release of the 2006 motion picture. Special features: trailers ; "Gifted and challenged: the making-of 'Shortbus'" featurette ; "How to shoot sex: a docu-primer" featurette ; deleted scenes with filmmaker & cast commentary ; trailers ; teaser ; filmmaker & cast commentary.
- Target audience
- Unrated ; contains sexually explicit content.
- Kinsey subjects
- Interpersonal relations. Sexual humor. Sex behavior--New York (State)--New York--Drama. Homosexuality--New York (State)--New York--Drama.
- Other contributors
- Gertler, Howard. Perell, Tim. Mitchell, John Cameron. Lee, Sook-yin. Dawson, Paul (Actor) Beamish, Lindsay. DeBoy, P. J. (Paul J.), 1971- Barker, Raphael. Stickles, Peter. Brannan, Jay. Bond, Justin Vivian, 1963- Yo La Tengo (Musical group) Thinkfilm (Firm) Fortissimo Films.
- Standard Identifier
- 821575550758