Tell Me Why I Don't Like Mondays

Tell Me Why I Don't Like Mondays

Tell Me Why I Don't Like Mondays

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Drama

Overview

Narrated through her diary, the story is a fictional account of Laura, a petite self-destructive and remote teenager living a drug fuelled dead-end, latch-key existence in a Southern Californian suburb.

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2 featured cast members

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Madeleine Arthur

Madeleine Arthur

Laura

Ninet Tayeb

Ninet Tayeb

Jenny

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Directed by: Marcus Thompson
Written by: Marcus Thompson
James Vollmar
Produced by: Douglas Falconer
Michael Laundon

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