Ciao! Manhattan
Apr 19, 1973 | IMDB 5.4
84 min Watch NowDocumentary, Drama
Fiction and documentary mingle in a freewheeling portrait of Susan Superstar, a New York celebrity on a drug-fueled downward slide that mirrors Edie Sedgwick’s own self-destructive spiral.
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IMDB 6.1 | Oct , 1956
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IMDB 0 | Jan , 1970
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