Shelf Life (1993)
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2025-09 to 2026-08
Directors
Paul Bartel
The story
Following the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963, a Californian family head to their nuclear bunker. The film returns thirty years later and 40 feet underground with a typical day for the children, Tina, Pam and Scotty, still in the bunker, together with their now dead parents.
Genres
comedy drama
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