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| | Metroactive Movies | 'Series 7: The Contenders' |
 | | They include cranky, middle-aged ER nurse Connie (Marylouise Burke); 18-year-old Lindsay (Merritt Wever), who comes complete with an overbearing stage mom (Donna Hanover, Rudolph Giuliani's ex); and suicidal testicular cancer patient Jeff (Glenn Fitzgerald), who also happens to be Dawn's ex-boyfriend. |
 | | But that's about as clever and nuanced as the satire gets; it never ventures beyond "Everyone in reality TV is a smug, narcissistic bastard, and as for you viewers, you're all dupes for eating this stuff up"-style commentary, hardly an earth-shattering observation. |
 | | Series 7: The Contenders (R; 85 min.), written and directed by Daniel Minahan, photographed by Randy Drummond and starring Brooke Smith, Glenn Fitzgerald and Marylouise Burke, opens Friday at Camera One in San Jose. |
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