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The Stepfather (2009)
★ 5.8 · 955 ratings on TMDB
This fall, daddy's home.
Michael Harding returns home from military school to find his mother happily in love and living with her new boyfriend, David. As the two men get to know each other, Michael becomes more and more suspicious of the man who is always there with a helpful hand. Is he really the man of her dreams or could David be hiding a dark side?
DirectorNelson McCormick
The emergence reading
The Stepfather keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.
zero-distanceUS
Same rung, same subject
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Same subject, different rung
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