The African Desperate

5.545
  • Genre:Comedy, Drama
  • Production:Ways & Means
  • Released:2022-09-16
  • IMDB:tt17048276
It’s MFA grad Palace Bryant’s final 24 hours in art school, and she is not going to the graduation party! She needs to get back home to Chicago from Upstate New York, but that means surviving a hazy, hilarious, and hallucinatory odyssey, stumbling from academic critiques to backseat hookups.
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