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Malcolm in the Middle

Created by Linwood Boomer

FOX2000 34 pages

A gifted young teen tries to survive life with his dimwitted, dysfunctional family.

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“We are VERY CLOSE on an EXTREMELY HAIRY MALE BACK. After a moment, ELECTRIC CLIPPERS BUZZ through, leaving a clean pink track. We WIDEN TO REVEAL: MOM DAD”

All of the characters , other than Malcolm, are introduced through close-ups of personal faults (?). This is interesting. Anyone has some incites on this?

T tonyhall · 1 month, 1 week ago · 0 replies · Read Pilot →