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The Learning Curve is a american film of genre Drama released in USA on 5 october 2001 with Carmine Giovinazzo
The Learning Curve (1999)
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Add to a movie listThe Learning Curve is a 2001 American thriller film about two Los Angeles nightclub scenesters who team up as con artists. It explores themes of ruthless ambition and its consequences. The film was directed by Eric Schwab, and stars Carmine Giovinazzo, Norbert Weisser, and Monet Mazur.
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Paul Cleveland (Carmine Giovinazzo) fights off Georgia's (Monet Mazur) attacker. A strong bond develops between the two and the ambition of Cleveland begins to surface rapidly as he starts to participate in scams with Georgia to raise enough money to leave his job as a hospital orderly behind. When they try to scam Marshal (played by Vincent Ventresca) by staging a road accident using Georgia as a distracting female hitchhiker it seems that they have struck a very dangerous individual as he produces a gun and kidnaps them.Actors
Carmine Giovinazzo
(Paul Cleveland)
Norbert Weisser
Steven Bauer
(Mark)
Vincent Ventresca
(Marshal)
Monet Mazur
(Georgia)
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