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Unlikely Treasures

Unlikely Treasures

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📜 Overview: About compulsive collectors or people who collect unexpected things like clothespins, platform shoes and discarded tea-tags, taking you on a trip inside their homes, their minds and their drawers of stuff. There is method to their madness and this film will show you why.
🌏 Languages Available:
📆 Date Released: 2010-01-01
⌚ Running Time: 52 mins
⭐ Vote Average: 5.0

Beloved Cast

Dorothy Globus original image
Curator New York's Museum of Arts & Design
Dorothy Globus
Billy Mavreas original image
Collector
Billy Mavreas
Kyle Supley original image
Collector
Kyle Supley
Marilynn Gelfman Karp original image
Author of 'In Flagrante Collecto'
Marilynn Gelfman Karp
Carole Basetta original image
Designer
Carole Basetta
Jessie Sholl original image
Writer
Jessie Sholl
Harriet Dias original image
Collector
Harriet Dias

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