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  • 2006
  • SundanceTV
  • 1 h 25 m
  • 2006
  • SundanceTV
  • 1 h 25 m
Four Eyed Monsters

Summary In an attempt to keep their interaction interesting, a young couple in New York City who meet on line make a pact to not speak to one another. As their romance develops, they only write, draw, email, text, have sex, instant message, and make videos for each other. No talking. A new world of more complicated problems is discovered, and th...

Directed By: Susan Buice, Arin Crumley

Written By: Susan Buice, Arin Crumley

  • 2006
  • SundanceTV
  • 1 h 25 m
  • 2006
  • SundanceTV
  • 1 h 25 m

Four Eyed Monsters

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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Summary In an attempt to keep their interaction interesting, a young couple in New York City who meet on line make a pact to not speak to one another. As their romance develops, they only write, draw, email, text, have sex, instant message, and make videos for each other. No talking. A new world of more complicated problems is discovered, and th...

Directed By: Susan Buice, Arin Crumley

Written By: Susan Buice, Arin Crumley

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Generally Favorable Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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Generally Favorable Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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90
An uber-modern romance story that's powered with raw honesty and coated with wild imagination.
By Eric Campos FULL REVIEW
88
Novice filmmakers Arin Crumley and Susan Buice's charming homemade movie is a surprisingly successful experiment in collaborative creativity that sprang from a larger artistic project: their own real-life relationship.
By Ken Fox FULL REVIEW
70
This innovative chronicle of a truly modern romance also conveys, in a painful, darkly humorous way, a variety of ultra-identifiable truths, including the loneliness often suffered by big-city inhabitants and the complexities of sexual intimacy.
By Laura Kern FULL REVIEW
70
Fortunately, these artists know how to tap in to the universal longing for acceptance, making for a fresh, witty, and contemporary take on the perennial boy-meets-girl story.
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So playful and imaginative that only at the very end -- in a metafictional tag about their project's success on the festival circuit -- does its narcissism become off-putting.
By J.R. Jones FULL REVIEW
60
Fascinating if overly self-involved Slamdance entry is among the few U.S. pics that deliberately smudges the line between non-fiction and invention as it tells how Crumley and Buice meet online and develop a relationship.
By Robert Koehler FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Less Life Lived LLC
Release Date Dec 1, 2006
Duration 1 h 25 m
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Tagline Four glittering eyes, two pink mouths, and eight limbs wrapped around itself taking up two seats on the subway.
Website http://www.myspace.com/foureyedmonsters
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Awards

Brooklyn International Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Film Independent Spirit Awards
• 2 Nominations
Newport International Film Festival, Rhode Island
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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