Huckleberry Finn: A Close Place

Huckleberry Finn: A Close Place

Huckleberry Finn: A Close Place

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Huckleberry Finn: A Close Place

"You can't pray a lie."

2020

0h 15m

5.5(2 votes)

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Transposing Mark Twain's immortal anti-racist novel to 2017, "Huckleberry Finn: A Close Place" depicts the friendship that develops between a poor Missouri boy and an undocumented African immigrant as they drift down the Mississippi River on a makeshift raft in pursuit of freedom.

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Brody Behr

Huck Finn

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Will T. Wamba

Jimal Suleman

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Lucy Zukaitis

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Christopher Mowka

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