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Huckleberry Finn: A Close Place

Directed by Frank Tovar

Starring Brody Behr, Will T. Wamba

You can't pray a lie.

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.