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Release Date: 1994
Cast: Jennifer MacDonald, Peter Greene, Megan Owen, Alice Levitt
Categories: Movies, Crime Fiction, Drama Film, Thriller, Crime Thriller, Mystery
Clean, Shaven is a 1994 film directed by Lodge Kerrigan, in which Peter Winter (played by Peter Greene) is a schizophrenic man desperately trying to get his daughter back from her adoptive mother. The film tries to objectively view schizophrenia and those who are affected by it.
The film took about two years to completely finish shooting because Lodge Kerrigan, the director, was constantly running out of money. The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival.
The film begins with abstract images and sounds, much like any person with schizophrenia... MORE
Clean, Shaven is a 1994 film directed by Lodge Kerrigan, in which Peter Winter (played by Peter Greene) is a schizophrenic man desperately trying to get his daughter back from her adoptive mother. The film tries to objectively view schizophrenia and those who are affected by it.
The film took about two years to completely finish shooting because Lodge Kerrigan, the director, was constantly running out of money. The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival.
The film begins with abstract images and sounds, much like any person with schizophrenia would be accustomed to. Peter Winter has recently been released from a mental institution and upon his release, must try to experience and understand a world that is all but foreign to him.
Beginning the search for his daughter Nicole (Jennifer MacDonald), Peter's car is hit by a soccer ball. A young girl looks from beyond his windshield at him, and he gets out of the car. No actual images of the girl are shown after Peter exits his car, but the screams of a young girl are heard as if Peter is beating her. He carries a large orange bag into his trunk, and the audience is meant to presume that Peter LESS
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