Jorge (45) lives with his parents and has been working at a Film Archive for 25 years. He is a film programmer, he makes technical support, and he conducts the film news show at a radio station in Montevideo. Without any other job experience than working at the Film Archive, Jorge loses his position. A Useful Life explores the way Jorge changes his way of living in order to adapt to the new world that appears to him. After all, maybe 'movies' will help him survive.
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Drama about a cinema worker who is forced to step into the outside world when his theatre closes down. For the 25 years that he has been employed at the Cinemateca Uruguay, Jorge (Jorge Jellinek) has come to understand life through films. When the cinema is shut down after failing to make a profit, Jorge is exposed to the real world and faces challenges such as getting a haircut and asking a woman to go on a date.
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