George Washington (2000)

Director
David Gordon Green

Main cast
Candace Evanofski; Donald Holden; Damian Jewan Lee; Curtis Cotton III; Rachael Handy

Genres
Drama

Description
A delicately told and deceptively simple story of a group of children in a depressed small town who band together to cover up a tragic mistake.


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