07 Nov 1997
Brute
Shipped off to a Romanian orphanage to finish his sentence, a British criminal finds romance but also discovers corruption inside the facility.
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Kittens Reichert 
Violet Mersereau Earl Simmons Frank Smith 
William Dyer 
Paul Panzer Isabel Patterson 
William Garwood Paddy Sullivan
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