Wake (2003)
Director
Roy Finch
Main cast
Blake Gibbons; Gale Harold; John Winthrop Philbrick; Dihlon McManne; Martin Landau
Genres
Drama
Description
The fateful reunion of four brothers quickly dissolves into a night of drinking, deceit, perversions, and death. They don't realize until it is too late that the party they are having is, in fact, a wake.
Roy Finch
Main cast
Blake Gibbons; Gale Harold; John Winthrop Philbrick; Dihlon McManne; Martin Landau
Genres
Drama
Description
The fateful reunion of four brothers quickly dissolves into a night of drinking, deceit, perversions, and death. They don't realize until it is too late that the party they are having is, in fact, a wake.
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