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Completed - ENGLISH - Comedy, Drama - 90 minutes

Log Line

A teenage girl and a dictator become unlikey, yet innocent pen pals, but when the dictator is forced out of his country, he suddenly shows up at her house to seek refuge with his only remaining friend.

Previous markets

  • Berlin EFM 2017 (Debut)
  • Cannes 2017 (Premiere)
Full history

Year of production : 2016

Director(s) : Lisa ADDARIO, Joe SYRACUSE
Writer(s) : Lisa ADDARIO, Joe SYRACUSE
Cast : Michael CAINE, Katie HOLMES, Odeya RUSH

Producer(s) : Lucas JARACH, Robert OGDEN BARNUM

Synopsis

When an outcast teenage girl, TATIANA (Rush) gets a school assignment to write a letter to a person she admires, she jokingly writes a letter to a foreign dictator named HECTOR (Caine) simply because she likes his fashion sense. Hector takes to the admiration and the two become unlikely pen pals. However, when Hector has to flee his country during a coup d’etat, he seeks refuge in the house of his only remaining friend who can help, Tatiana, who is forced to take him in when he shows up at her door.

Production

Country(ies) : USA

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