Escape the Usual

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Escape the Usual

2023

0h 14m

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Escape the Usual follows a day in the life of three teenage boys during the spring of 2002 in a small fishing village along the south shore of Nova Scotia.

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Desmond Smyth

Boy

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Isaac Lohnes

Joe

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Calum Eddy

Kyle

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Easton Goodwin

Jimmy

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Nicole Whynot

Mother

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Andrew Danylewich

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