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God’s Pocket

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language: English
director: John Slattery
actor: Christina Hendricks Eddie Marsan John Turturro Philip Seymour Hoffman Richard Jenkins
writer: Alex Metcalf John Slattery

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In the gritty, blue-collar neighborhood of God’s Pocket, Mickey Scarpato’s crazy stepson, Leon, is killed in a construction “accident,” and Mickey quickly tries to bury the bad news with the body. But when a local columnist comes sniffing around for the truth, things go from bad to worse.

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