PEN15(2019)
Overview
Middle school as it really happened. Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle star in this adult comedy, playing versions of themselves as thirteen-year-old outcasts in the year 2000, surrounded by actual thirteen-year-olds, where the best day of your life can turn into your worst with the stroke of a gel pen.
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Top 7 Billed Cast
Maya Ishii-Peters
Anna Kone
Curtis Kone
Kathy Kone
Sam Zablowski
Shuji Ishii-Peters
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