“Primetime” and Emptiness
This is not McDonald’s. This is something different.

Lost in remotest part of Eastern Europe, Sam is a foreigner, searching for his biological father Lagzdins where a minor road accident leads to a chance meeting with a pig-farmer's daughter, who captures him and makes him a forced laborer on the farm.
This is not McDonald’s. This is something different.
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The problem isn’t that it’s bad. It's good. But it fails to stand out from a crowd of similar films.
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