Name: Loose Fish
Genre: Short
Released: 2020-09-12
Duration: 16 min
Rating: 6.3
Cast: Abdelah Hamidou, Momo Khalil, Ismail Lahlou

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Loose Fish

This was some sort of mediocre. It's a simple story about a boy who wants to earn a bit of cash and run with it. It could have been much more, but it's not.

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