Skills Like This

Skills Like This

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Skills Like This

"Everybody Wants to be Somebody"

2007

1h 26m

5.0(12 votes)

Comedy

Overview

Max Solomon faces the awful truth that he will never be a writer. So, in a desperate attempt to find his true calling, he turns to crime. In this inventive comedy, three friends have their lives turned upside down when one of them realizes that larceny might be his best skill.

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12 members

Writing

Spencer Berger

Max

Spencer Berger

Acting

Brian D. Phelan

Tommy

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Acting

Gabriel Tigerman

Dave

Gabriel Tigerman

Acting

Kerry Knuppe

Lucy

Kerry Knuppe

Acting

Jennifer Batter

Lauren

Jennifer Batter

Acting

Ned Bellamy

Uncle Morris

Ned Bellamy

Acting

Marta Martin

Rosa

Marta Martin

Acting

Zach Cumer

Cousin Jeramiah

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Danielle Arnold

Onion Dance Player

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Directing

Donna Dewey

TV Reporter

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Charles Thomas Doyle

Italian Restaurant patron

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Tupper Cullum

Englehard

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