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Postdoc dramas on film

By Alison George

5 October 2011

A series of one-liners captures the postgrad’s bittersweet existence in The PhD Movie, written by Jorge Cham and directed by Vahe Gabuchian

The PhD Movie written by Jorge Cham, directed by Vahe Gabuchian. For screenings see

“LET me tell you how this works,” says the curmudgeonly Professor Smith, giving a would-be graduate student the benefit of his wisdom. “Being a PhD student and working with a professor is a lot like a marriage. The whole thing lasts five to seven years, and 50 per cent end in a bitter divorce.”

So begins , dreamed up by…

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