Summer Song (2012)

Director
Aram Rappaport

Main cast
Alexa PenaVega; Patrick Mapel; Caleb Landry Jones; John Savage; Alanna Ubach

Genres
Romance, Drama

Description
Ellie a talented young musician with the opportunity of a lifetime is torn between obligation to her family and the chance to realize her dream. Saddled with the care of her five siblings as a result of an alcoholic mother a breathtakingly irresponsible father and a terrifyingly misguided preacher of a brother, Ellie falls in love with an aspiring young writer.


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