Beauty Mark

Jun 17, 2017

1h 27m

★ 5.5

Overview

Angie, a poverty-stricken young mother, is taking care of her son and alcoholic mother when she is evicted from her house. Now she has to get money from the only person she knows with any - the man who abused her as a child.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

The Group Entertainment

Hideout Pictures

Madison Square Films

Beauty Mark Trailers

Cast

Angie

Auden Thornton

Ruth Ann

Catherine Curtin

Lorraine

Laura Bell Bundy

Bruce

Jeff Kober

Pam

Madison Iseman

Pastor Hodges

Deirdre Lovejoy

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