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Flagpole Special

6.3199817mMovieComedyDrama

Commissioned for Creative Time’s RET.inevitable in 1998, Paul Thomas Anderson’s Flagpole Special is a DV short showing John C. Reilly and Chris Penn from the waist down, riffing on pickup-seminar bravado that anticipates Magnolia’s “Seduce…

DirectorPaul Thomas Anderson
WriterPaul Thomas Anderson

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Cast · Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson

Chris Penn
Chris Penn
John C. Reilly
John C. Reilly

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