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As You Are

As You Are

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As You Are

2016

1h 50m

6.9(115 votes)

Drama

Overview

Set in the early 1990s, "As You Are" is the telling and retelling of a relationship between three teenagers as it traces the course of their friendship through a construction of disparate memories prompted by a police investigation.

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Production Companies

Votiv Films

Heretical Reason Productions

Buffalo 8

The people behind it

Cast & crew

10 featured cast members

Starring

Owen Campbell

Owen Campbell

Jack

Charlie Heaton

Charlie Heaton

Mark

Amandla Stenberg

Amandla Stenberg

Sarah

John Scurti

John Scurti

Detective Erickson

Scott Cohen

Scott Cohen

Tom

Mary Stuart Masterson

Mary Stuart Masterson

Karen

Annemarie Lawless

Margaret

Andrew Polk

Andrew Polk

Jeff

Billy Thomas Myott

Billy Thomas Myott

James

John Romeo

Gas Station Attendant

Creative team

Directed by: Miles Joris-Peyrafitte
Written by: Miles Joris-Peyrafitte
Madison Harrison
Produced by: Brent Stiefel
Justin Lothrop

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