Guys Reading Poems

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Guys Reading Poems

"Some minds bend. Some break."

2016

1h 38m

5.3(7 votes)

Mystery

Drama

Overview

A resourceful boy creatively uses poetry to survive when his mother, a disturbed avant garde painter, locks him in a puppet box and builds an art installation around his imprisonment.

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Cast & crew

10 featured cast members

Starring

Patricia Velásquez

Mother

Alexander Dreymon

Father

Luke Judy

Boy

Lydia Hearst

The Actress

Rex Lee

Christos Vasilopoulos

The Director

Jerod Meagher

Hunter Lee Hughes

Blake Sheldon

Justin Schwan

Creative team

Directed by: Hunter Lee Hughes
Written by: Hunter Lee Hughes
Steven Reigns

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