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The Pearl(2016)
Status: Released
Date: 2016-03-03
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5 Votes
Time: 1h 37m
Overview:
"The Pearl" explores the raw emotional and physical experience of being a middle aged to senior transgender woman against the backdrop of post-industrial logging towns in the Pacific Northwest. The film leans into the struggle of those who were reared and successful as men and have reached middle age or later with a burdensome secret that they can no longer keep.
Languages: English.
Countries:
United States of America
ProductionCompanies: 
Independent Film Producers (IFP)
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