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Dusty and Sweets McGee

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R,1hr 31min
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1971
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Synopsis: Maverick director Floyd Mutrux made his feature debut with this offbeat semi-documentary look at the realities of the Los Angeles drug scene. Mutrux and his camera crew follow a handful of real-life heroin addicts as they go through their daily routines of scoring dope and whiling away the hours until their next fix. (The dealers are played by actors, among them William Fraker, a noted cinematographer who helped shoot the film, and Billy Gray, a former child star from Father Knows Best.) Dusty and ... Full Synopsis
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This singular blend of fiction and verite is one of the most unique portraits of drug addiction ever captured on celluloid. Dusty & Sweets McGee does its all to bring the viewer deep inside the ennui and soul-numbing repetition of an addict's daily existence. As a result, the film foregoes much of the niceties involved in narrative filmmaking: plotting is replaced with an episodic drift of incidents, ... Full Review
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