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Pheno was Here
Short Film (Full Length) – 1982
Do you take the pill ... sheesh I mean do you take milk in your ...– Harry (Kelly Johnson) chats up Pheno (Donogh Rees)
What are we going to do? Stay in bed and make love? What are we going to eat?– Pheno (Donogh Rees)
The road to Makara is not an easy one!– Harry (Kelly Johnson)
The film serves as a pocket reminder to those of us that lived through it of how ambiguous we felt about our country back then.– Gregor Cameron, reviews the film for website Lumière Reader, 8 October 2010
But we don't wanna be scrub-cutters!– Pheno (Donogh Rees) to her dole officer
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