Paul Bartel directed this film version of a performance art piece by O-Lan Jones, Andrea Stein, and Jim Turner, who play Tina, Pam, and Scotty — three grown-up kids who have spent the last thirty years sealed off in a backyard family bomb shelter. A prologue explains what happened: in 1963, when John Kennedy is assassinated, a typical middle-class family from Anaheim retreat to their backyard bomb shelter, afraid that the commies are coming. In 1993, they are still there — even Mom and Dad, who have since died, but the bones are laid out nicely on their bed. The brother and two sisters, in worn-out clothing, amuse themselves by playing silly little games (something called “Egyptian Fantasy” with Ken as the Pharaoh), engaging in absurd rounds of role playing (Tina as a high-school tease), and hurling senseless rebukes at one another (“I can’t hear you. I’ve got a set of encyclopedias up my butt” ).

Shelf Life.1993.576p.BDRip-AVC.ZONE.mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 20 min
Size: 	1.90 GiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	1024x576 
Aspect ratio:  	16:9
Frame rate: 	23.976 fps
Bit rate: 	3 000 kb/s
BPP: 	0.212
Audio
#1:  	English 2.0ch AAC LC @ 158 kb/s
#2:  	English 2.0ch AAC LC @ 211 kb/s (Commentary with Jones, Stein, Turner, Holahan and Alex Mechanik)

https://nitro.download/view/0EC7F46FEB01428/Shelf_Life.1993.576p.BDRip-AVC.ZONE.mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:English

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