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Leaves of Grass (2009)

★ 6.0 · 469 ratings on TMDB

Drugs, Murder, and Brotherly Love.

Leaves of Grass poster★ 6.0

An Ivy League professor returns home, where his pot-growing twin brother has concocted a plan to take down a local drug lord.

DirectorTim Blake Nelson
CastAmelia Campbell, Edward Norton, Kent Jude Bernard, Keri Russell, Lucy DeVito, Melanie Lynskey
GenresComedy, Crime, Thriller
The emergence reading

Leaves of Grass keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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