

BLUNT
“Perfection Simmers”
Overview
When your knife turns blunt, do you sharpen it or let it become a glorified butter knife at dad's company brunches? Something only you can answer.
Top Cast
Luis Basnett
Charlie
Ashton Bolt
Willow
Pierre-Paul Brillon
Child Aspiring Chef
Rohann Coffey
The Father
Archie Lush
The Aspiring Chef

Paul Walenkamp
Leon
John Shrimpton
Damien
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About BLUNT
BLUNT is a drama, family, comedy film released in 2025 exploring themes of restart, cooking, failure, growing up, food, work ethic. Directed by Alex Power, it stars Luis Basnett, Ashton Bolt, Pierre-Paul Brillon. When your knife turns blunt, do you sharpen it or let it become a glorified butter knife at dad's company brunches? Something only you can answer.
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Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2(2013)
After the disastrous food storm in the first film, Flint and his friends are forced to leave the town. Flint accepts the invitation from his idol Chester V to join The Live Corp Company, which has been tasked to clean the island, and where the best inventors in the world create technologies for the betterment of mankind. When Flint discovers that his machine still operates and now creates mutant food beasts like living pickles, hungry tacodiles, shrimpanzees and apple pie-thons, he and his friends must return to save the world.

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My Travel Buddy 2(2018)
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