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Short Skin (2014)
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Ever since he was a child, the seventeen-yearold Edoardo has suffered from a malformation of the foreskin that stops him from masturbating and makes him insecure and ill at ease with girls. Shut up in his sexless microcosm, Edoardo reacts with irritation to the pressures of the outside world, which do nothing but exacerbate his insecurity.Forced against his will to emerge from the shadows in which he has hidden for years, Edoardo will initially try to solve his problem by clumsy stratagems before finding, at last, the courage to face his own fears.
Style:
humorous, realistic, captivating, psychological, sexy, touching, semi serious, sexual, sex comedy
Plot:
coming of age, sexuality, teenage boy, anxiety, masturbation, surgery, family relations, teenage life, teenage love, youth, misfit, teenager, gay erotica, male nudity, uncertainty, loss of virginity, boy, gays and lesbians, nude, beach, doctor, hospital, teenage girl, male objectification, first date ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
italy
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Duration: 87 min.
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Story:
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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