Brand Upon the Brain!
May 09 2007
•2h 38m
•Drama, Mystery
After returning home to his long-estranged mother upon a request from her deathbed, a man raised by his parents in an orphanage has to confront the childhood memories that have long haunted him.
Cast
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Isabella Rossellini
Interlocuter
Erik Steffen Maahs
Grown-up Guy Maddin
Sullivan Brown
Young Guy Maddin
Gretchen Krich
Mother
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