The Devil's Playground
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8/12/1976Runtime
107 minsGenres
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A powerful drama relating the intimate aspect of teenage boys and their priest/educators behind the walls of a religious institution where rigid discipline backfires natural feelings are deemed unnatural acts and human lives are controlled in the names of good intentions.
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EnglishBudget
$193,269Revenue
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A claustrophobic examination of adolescent awakening within the repressive confines of a Catholic boarding school, where institutional control and natural desires collide with devastating consequences. The film captures the suffocation of rigid discipline and the cost of denying fundamental aspects of being human.
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