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MPAA Raing: R
Director: Daniel Minahan
Genres: Media Satire, Comedy, Thriller
Sound By: Dolby Digital
Released Date: March 02, 2001 (USA
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Summary:
The "reality TV" craze is taken to its final, logical extreme as six people hunt each other down in a small town for the benefit of network TV cameras in this darkly comic satire. "The Contenders" is a top-rated television game show in which six contestants are set loose in the same Connecticut community, with orders to kill or be killed; the last of the six who is still alive is declare... Full Summary >>

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Cast:
Brooke Smith - (Dawn)
Glenn Fitzgerald - (Jeff)
Marylouise Burke - (Connie)
Richard Venture - (Franklin)
Merritt Wever - (Lindsay)
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Review:
Daniel Minahan's remarkable debut feature has the sting of some of the best American media send-ups (Network, for starters), but its timeliness gives it an impressive ardor all its own. One of the more inventive and audacious recent films to explore the nation's obsession with sensationalism, the movie scores also as bona fide entertainment, ... Continue >>

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