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Tight 12-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
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Opus One
1968 0h 12m EN
Comedy
Synopsis
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Color/Black and White UCLA Student, Film Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. A humorous play on Hollywood romance conventions and the process of student film critique. Higgins introduces a meta soundtrack of voices critiquing the film overlaying on the footage, with a filmmaker responding to the questions. Bookending the film is the same footage of a couple running into each others' arms on the beach, contrasted with a story of a couple's attempts to get an abortion in the middle of the film. Directed by Colin Higgins, the writer of Harold and Maude, 9 to 5, and The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.
“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”
Credits
Behind the camera
- Director
- Colin Higgins
- Countries
- United States of America
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The take
Colin Higgins directs. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in United States of America.
Trivia
Things worth knowing
- 1Tight 12-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
- 258 years old — a genuine piece of film history.
- 3Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
The technical file
- Runtime
- 12 min · 0h 12m
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- EN
Also by
Colin Higgins
Key crew
Release history · US
When it landed
- Theatrical1968-01-01
