To Fly in a Straight Line

To Fly in a Straight Line

To Fly in a Straight Line

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To Fly in a Straight Line

2013

0h 22m

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Drama

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Two childhood friends from a small village in the north of Nicaragua briefly reunite one day in the city. One, a University student, and the other, a dropout, have a slight misunderstanding regarding a motorcycle, which leads to some petty drama in their similarly uneventful day-to-day lives.

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Walder Casco López

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Norman Flores

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