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Apr 23, 1993 · Shelf Life: Directed by Paul Bartel. With O-Lan Jones, Andrea Stein, Jim Turner, Paul Bartel. In 1963, a paranoid middle-class couple locks themselves and their small kids in their nuclear fallout shelter. 30 years later, their oblivious son and two daughters still survive there playing absurd games.
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- Comedy, Drama, Musical
- Paul Bartel
- 1993-04-23
Shelf Life is a 1993 American comedy-drama film directed by Paul Bartel. The final film Bartel directed before he died in 2000, it stars O-Lan Jones, Andrea Stein, and Jim Turner. [1] Plot. Following the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963, a Californian family head to their nuclear bunker.
Three siblings (O-Lan Jones, Andrea Stein, Jim Turner) spend 30 years in the family bomb shelter they entered after the JFK assassination.
- Paul Bartel
- Drama
- O-Lan Jones
Synopsis. A branch library becomes the battlefield for a fierce war of wills in this dark comedy by writer-director Tamar Halpern. A head librarian quietly loathes the new book shelver, a feisty woman fresh out of rehab. But what begins as simmering passive aggression soon spirals into all-out war.
- Tamar Halpern
- 2
The never-released, undiscovered final feature film from legendary director Paul Bartel. Tina, Pam, and Scotty are taken down into Mom and Dad’s well-stocked bomb shelter when Kennedy is assassinated in 1963…and they never come out.
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- 768
- Matchbox Cine
Sep 7, 2021 · Shelf Life is no longer lost, but it’s still a cult film, and it feels hauntingly prescient in 2021. Based on the play of the same name by O-Lan Jones, Andrea Stein, and Jim Turner, the film examines a day in the life of the St. Cloud siblings: Tina (Jones), Pam (Stein), and Scotty (Turner).
