Article: YES, THEY COLLECT TV DINNERS.(U)

Byline: Bob Strauss Film Critic

SEAN ANDERS never made a movie before ``NBT: Never Been Thawed.'' Neither he nor any of his friends who appear in the film have acted before, either. They spent something like $25,000 on this mockumentary about a bunch of young, Phoenix-area obsessives, their dorky interests and astonishing hypocrisy.

All that considered, ``NBT'' is an interesting film. It's amateurish in a lot of ways, cynical beyond belief and the we're-participating-in-a-documentary-about-ourselves format doesn't always work and sometimes makes no sense. But this exceedingly arch, if admirably poker-faced assault on everything from religion to ...

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