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2006 · Movie · 1h 41m

Shortbus

CriticsCritics: 67
AudienceAudience: 6.5

In post-9/11 New York, an eclectic group of people with complicated emotional and romantic lives become connected through an underground Brooklyn salon blending art, music, politics, and sexual openness. As their relationships develop, they confront loneliness, intimacy, self-discovery, and the desire for meaningful connection.

My take

You may enjoy this if you appreciate unconventional, character-driven relationship dramas with humor and emotional honesty; Not for you if explicit sexual content or deliberately provocative storytelling is a dealbreaker.

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Cast

Paul DawsonSook-Yin LeePJ DeBoyLindsay BeamishJay BrannanRaphael BarkerAdam HardmanPeter Stickles

Director

John Cameron Mitchell

If tonight is a Shortbus night…

…these live in the same corner of my head.

Want one picked out for tonight?

Tell me what kind of night it is — I'll do the rest.