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Alternately hilarious and horrifying, Overnight chronicles one man's misadventures of making a Hollywood movie. It starts out as a rags to riches story as Troy Duffy, a Boston-bred bartender, sells his first screenplay for The Boondock Saints.
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IMDB 6.9 | Nov , 2003
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IMDB 6.7 | May , 2015
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IMDB 7.2 | Oct , 2014
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