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Original Title:
Leads
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Directed by two-time Independent Spirit Award nominee Bryan Poyser (LOVERS OF HATE, LOVE & AIR SEX), LEADS is about an acting professor (Heather Kafka, THE LEFTOVERS, JOE, THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE) who has her comfortable life in her small college town upended when her charming and volatile baby brother (Justin Arnold, SCENES FROM THE SUBURBS, CRIMINAL MINDS, LOVE & AIR SEX) drifts into town. Antsy to start a new chapter in his own life, he decides to audit her acting class, setting off a battle of wills between them for the hearts and minds of her eager students that could bring them all to brink of success or debilitating ruin. Also starring Macon Blair (BLUE RUIN, OPPENHEIMER, RESERVATION DOGS).
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