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Shortbus (2006)
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Summary: John Cameron Mitchell's Shortbus explores the lives of several emotionally challenged characters as they navigate the comic and tragic intersections between love and sex in and around a modern-day underground salon. The characters converge on a weekly gathering called Shortbus: a mad nexus of art, music, politics and polysexual carnality. Set in a post-9/11, Bush-exhausted New York City, Shortbus tells its story with sexual frankness, suggesting new ways to reconcile questions of the mind, pleasures of the flesh and imperatives of the heart. (ThinkFilm)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
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Shortbus belongs to 12 collections
1. Full Female Frontal Nudity (Yes, Bush!) (public: moderated by iceblox - 6 stars)
2. Lesbian (public: moderated by Moribunny - 5 stars)
3. Gay (public: moderated by vincente - 4 stars)
4. Solo Genital Stimulation (Male) (public: moderated by LordofDance - 2 stars)
5. Sex (public: moderated by kyle.loomis - 1 star)
6. Male Frontal Nudity (public: moderated by bobyang - 1 star)
7. Cumshot & Hard-on (public: moderated by bobyang - 1 star)
8. Gay-Themed Films (Male) (public: moderated by bobyang - 1 star)
9. Hardcore sexual content (public: moderated by djross)
10. Cinemag's 100 Greatest Movies of the '00s (public: moderated by hristos)
11. Film Comment Best 50 Films of 2006 (private: djross - 1 star)
12. To buy (private: Technikilor)

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