Chained for Life

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Darkly funny and impressively ambitious, Chained for Life is as unpredictable as it is original.

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Movie Info

An actress bonds with a young man who has a severe facial deformity.

Cast & Crew

Jess Weixler
Mabel
Adam Pearson
Rosenthal
Stephen Plunkett
Max
Charlie Korsmo
Herr Director
Sari Lennick
Sarah
Daniel Gilchrist
Demby
Avi Glickstein
Doctor Glickstein
Miranda Gruss
Miriam
Rebecca Gruss
Eva
Aaron Schimberg
Director
Aaron Schimberg
Screenwriter
Daniel Patrick Carbone
Producer
Vanessa McDonnell
Producer
Matthew Petock
Producer
Dan Schoenbrun
Producer
Zachary Shedd
Producer
C. Spencer Yeh
Music
Adam J. Minnick
Cinematographer
Sofi Marshall
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Critic Reviews for Chained for Life

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  • [A] wonky, charming satire...

    October 27, 2019 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

    Simran Hans

    Observer (UK)

  • A sharp movie about moviemaking, with welcome surreal touches that are best left unspoiled.

    October 24, 2019 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

    Josh Slater-Williams

    Little White Lies

  • This low-budget film written and directed by Aaron Schimberg is almost every kind of strange, and yet it has an amiable warmth and an inexhaustible reserve of originality that make it compelling as hell.

    October 24, 2019 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

    Leslie Felperin

    Guardian

  • Anchored by Weixler's and Pearson's natural charm, "Chained for Life" stands up as both a quiet ode to the experimental, dreamlike spirit of moviemaking and a seriocomic corrective to sentimentalized sideshow portrayals.

    October 18, 2019 | Full Review…

    Robert Abele

    Los Angeles Times

  • If the point of Tod Browning's Freaks was that it's what's inside that makes someone a monster, Chained for Life finds that everyone is awkward, everyone sees their own flaws, and everybody is just somebody.

    October 3, 2019 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

    Richard Whittaker

    Austin Chronicle

  • Chained for Life's genius is in its playfulness, and in [director Aarpm] Schimberg's vision, lucid but disorienting, insistent that there be no boundary between the movie we're watching and the movie - movies? - his characters are making.

    September 23, 2019 | Full Review…

    K. Austin Collins

    Vanity Fair
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