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Huckleberry Finn: A Close Place

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Oct 19, 2020 0h 15mDrama
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Transposing Mark Twain's immortal anti-racist novel to 2017, "Huckleberry Finn: A Close Place" depicts the friendship that develops between a poor Missouri boy and an undocumented African immigrant as they drift down the Mississippi River on a makeshift raft in pursuit of freedom.

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Transposing Mark Twain's immortal anti-racist novel to 2017, "Huckleberry Finn: A Close Place" depicts the friendship that develops between a poor Missouri boy and an undocumented African immigrant as they drift down the Mississippi River on a makeshift raft in pursuit of freedom.

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$10,000
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Release date
Oct 19, 2020
Runtime
0h 15m
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Language
English
Country
Mexico, United States of America

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