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The Forgiving

2020, English. Directed by David J. Stern.

I will wash my hands in innocence.

Avi Brickman is a middle-aged man still broken from the tragic death of his eight-year-old daughter five years earlier. When he is suddenly fired from his job, a thin threaded lifeline to his shattered existence, he decides to kill himself in the very home where the accident occurred. However, when he arrives at the isolated house in the woods, he finds a woman and her young daughter taking shelter there. During one long night, in his confused state of mind, he is haunted by the ghosts of his past as he confronts his guilt and pain to a cathartic and unexpected conclusion.

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Released
13 November 2020
Country
United States of America
Written by
David J. Stern
Budget
$8K
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The Forgiving (2020) was directed by David J. Stern and stars John Gerard Healy, Jenna Kuna, Kathy Sanders.

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