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Flawless (1999)

★ 6.2 · 298 ratings on TMDB

Nobody's perfect. Everybody's flawless.

Flawless poster★ 6.2

An ultraconservative police officer suffers a debilitating stroke and is assigned to a rehabilitative program that includes singing lessons - with the drag queen next door.

DirectorJoel Schumacher
CastBarry Miller, Chris Bauer, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Nashom Benjamin, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Robert De Niro
GenresComedy, Crime, Drama
The emergence reading

Flawless keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same people

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