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Rowan Dean

Suspend your disbelief? Naaah! This is Hollywood

Here’s the movie pitch: the former president of the United States locked up with the, er, druggie son of the current president, and, ah, they’re plotting how to escape.

[Somewhere in Hollywood …]

Producer 1: What about one of those prison buddy movies? You know, Shawshank Redemption meets Brubaker? Midnight Express meets Stir Crazy? A comedy crime caper thriller. Two guys have to share a prison cell, but they’re, like, totally incompatible. Can’t stand each other, but they’re locked up day and night together in this tiny little six-foot cell!

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Rowan Dean writes on Media & Marketing specialising in Advertising, TV, Publishing. Rowan is a columnist for the Financial Review. Connect with Rowan on Twitter.

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