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Shock Act (2004)
Vernon Phelps, an out-of-work actor living with his father in a squalid Brooklyn apartment, lands a job simulating electrocution for a prison research experiment.
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Vernon Phelps, an out-of-work actor living with his father in a squalid Brooklyn apartment, lands a job simulating electrocution for a prison research experiment.
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