What Is Nothing?

What Is Nothing?

School’s out and you have all the time in the world to hang with your best bud and...ponder the meaning of nothingness?

1973 · 9 min · ★ 7.2 · Comedy

It’s summer vacation! School’s out and you have all the time in the world to hang with your best bud and...ponder the meaning of nothingness? In What is Nothing? we join two youngsters who, as all rascals do, sit around and contemplate the void.

Directed by Bill Crain · Written by Stephen Kelso

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