Alchemy (film)

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Alchemy
Alchemy FilmPoster.jpeg
Directed byEvan Oppenheimer
Written byEvan Oppenheimer
Produced byKenneth Schapiro
Starring Tom Cavanagh
Sarah Chalke
CinematographyLuke Geissbuhler
Edited byAllison Eve Zell
Music byPeter Lurye
Distributed byMonarch Home Video
Release date
  • April 25, 2005 (2005-04-25)(Tribeca Film Festival)
Running time
85 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Alchemy is a 2005 film written and directed by Evan Oppenheimer and starring Tom Cavanagh and Sarah Chalke. It premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2005. [1] The film did not have a wide release in movie theaters, so its big public premiere was on television, on ABC Family on October 7, 2005.

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Premise

A university computer scientist tries to make a woman fall in love with his interactive computer before she succumbs to a well-known lothario professor.

Cast

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References

  1. "Alchemy | 2005 Tribeca Festival".