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King of Atlantis

King of Atlantis

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2019
1h 29m
9.0(2 votes)
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Comedy

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Samuel is the primary carer for his father - a paranoid schizophrenic. A chance encounter with a young woman disrupts their carefully constructed world and leads Samuel to question the kind of man that he would like to be.

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