Practice Funeral

Apr 22, 2019

0h 14m

★ 0.5

Overview

After teenage Ben comes to the realization that his stage 4 testicular cancer is terminal, he decides to throw a "practice funeral" as one final hurrah before the end of his young life.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

University of Southern California

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Cast

George

Ben Hirschhorn

Nora

Rachel Christianson

Kyle

Dylan Field

Caroline

Nicole Jia

Andrea

Sophia Konat

Brendan

Evan Macedo

Paul

Manny Spero

Mark

Miles Fowler

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