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Forbidden Fruit

2023 · 76 min

A quiet, earnest drama that sits with hard choices, mixing family worry with the uneasy tension of a double life.

Directed by: Louis Brown
Genres: Drama
Starring: Autumn Sylve, Patrick Faucette, Donny Carrington

Overview: After learning her father has cancer, a preacher's daughter becomes a dancer at a gentlemen's club to help with medical bills while trying to protect personal relationships.

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Directed by: Louis Brown
Genres: Drama
Starring: Autumn Sylve, Patrick Faucette, Donny Carrington

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Tone: melancholicstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
darkstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: family
survival
faith
class
identity
Places: big city
home
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: None
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Scale	Value	0 to 10
Action	2
Horror	1
Humour	2
Realism	7
Romance	3
Tension	5
Darkness	6
Complexity	4
Emotional weight	7

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Genres: drama
Directed by: Louis Brown
Written by: Miles Noah Lewis Paschall, Louis Brown
Starring: Autumn Sylve, Patrick Faucette, Donny Carrington, Zephaniah Terry, Colin McCalla, Gaia Gezachew, Davee Youngblood, Alisha S. Ward
Cinematography: Taylor Clemons
Runtime: 76 min

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