Like the Ones I Used to Know
★ 6.6 · 2021 · 18m · Drama
December 24, 1983, 10:50 p.m.; Julie and her cousins ate too much sugar, and Santa Claus is late. Denis, alone in his car, is anxious about setting foot in his former in-laws’ house to pick up his children.
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