Stump the Guesser

Stump the Guesser (2020)

After a bad day at work, a fairground performer sets out to disprove the theory of heredity so that he can marry his sister.

Date of release
2020-02-25
TMDB
6.5 / 10 (17)
Runtime
19m
Genres
Comedy, Fantasy
Director
Evan Johnson, Guy Maddin, Galen Johnson

Casting

Interesting facts

Stump the Guesser is a Canadian short film by Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson and Galen Johnson, which was released in 2020. A silent black-and-white film based on early Soviet cinema tropes, it stars Adam Brooks as a man who works as a guesser at the fair, but whose mindreading tricks suddenly begin to fail him; simultaneously, he meets a long-lost sister he never knew he had and falls in love with her, and sets out to disprove the theory of heredity in hopes of being able to marry her.

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