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Alex is a screenwriter working on a very personal script, the story of a weekend with a goal: to make love to his wife four times... Four times is not that many, isn't it? But with their daughter, friends, neighbors and a party getting in the way... things are not going to be that easy and even less fitting all that into a first draft with the decision not to rewrite a single line!
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Alex is a screenwriter working on a very personal script, the story of a weekend with a goal: to make love to his wife four times... Four times is not that many, isn't it? But with their daughter, friends, neighbors and a party getting in the way... things are not going to be that easy and even less fitting all that into a first draft with the decision not to rewrite a single line!
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Runtime:81 minutes
Studio:Aiguaviva Films
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