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The Book of Stars is a american film directed by Michael Miner released in USA on 6 june 1999 with Mary Stuart Masterson
The Book of Stars (1999)
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Add to a movie listThe Book of Stars is a 1999 American drama film about two sisters, both of whom are on the down slopes of their lives but in entirely different ways. It received its world premiere as part of the 1999 South By Southwest Film Festival.
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Penny and Mary are sisters living together in a tenement apartment in a seedy section of an unnamed city. The responsibility of caring for fifteen-year-old Mary has fallen on Penny due to the death of their parents years before.Actors
Mary Stuart Masterson
(Penny McGuire)
Jena Malone
(Mary McGuire)
Karl Geary
(Kristjan)
Delroy Lindo
(Professor)
D. B. Sweeney
(Prisoner)
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