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.
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Paraíso Terrenal
Keywords
- mississippi river
- freedom
- literature
- river
- undocumented immigrant
- social injustice
- injustice
- undocumented worker
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Top Cast
Brody Behr as Huck Finn
Will T. Wamba as Jimal Suleman
Lucy Zukaitis as Miss Watson
Christopher Mowka as Cop
Top Crew
Frank Tovar · Director, Screenplay
Stephen Wester · Cinematographer
Oscar A. Rosas · Editor
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