SIDNEY KIMMEL (Producer)
Veteran producer Sidney Kimmel is chairman and CEO of Sidney Kimmel Entertainment, the Los Angeles-based motion picture financing and production company.
Active in the motion picture industry for more than 30 years, Kimmel’s passion as an independent producer throughout the 1980’s and 1990’s eventually led to the founding of Sidney Kimmel Entertainment in October 2004. The Company develops, finances and produces three to five features per year, working with esteemed filmmaking talent to create quality, commercial films.
Prior to his success in filmed entertainment, Kimmel founded Jones Apparel Group in 1975, which has since grown into a $4.5 billion diversified fashion industry empire. Kimmel also founded the Sidney Kimmel Foundation and its subsidiary, the Sidney Kimmel Foundation for Cancer Research, which is one of the nation's largest individual donors to cancer research. Kimmel is extremely involved in philanthropic endeavors benefiting his hometown of Philadelphia as well as Jewish education and continuity. He oversaw the opening of the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia, home of the world-renowned Philadelphia Orchestra. He is also a partner in Cipriani International, the acclaimed international restaurant and catering establishment, and is a part owner of The Miami Heat.
Kimmel and Sidney Kimmel Entertainment co-financed and produced or co-produced more than
35 motion pictures since its inception. Kimmel most recently executive produced Sony’s Moneyball, and produced the hit thriller The Lincoln Lawyer, starring Matthew McConaughey, Marisa Tomei, Ryan Phillippe and William H. Macy, in association with Lakeshore Entertainment released by Lions Gate Entertainment. Upcoming releases include Stand-Up Guys, directed by Fisher Stevens, starring Al Pacino, Christopher Walken and Alan Arkin, produced in association with Lakeshore Entertainment for release by Lions Gate Entertainment; the Taylor Hackford directed Parker, starring Jennifer Lopez and Jason Statham, in association with Sierra/Affinity and Incentive Filmed Entertainment, to be released by Film District; and The Place Beyond the Pines, directed by Derek Cianfrance, starring Ryan Gosling, Bradley Cooper and Eva Mendes, to premiere at TIFF.
Kimmel financed and produced, both independently and with studio partners, Adventureland, the Greg Mottola-directed critical hit, starring Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart, co-financed and co-produced with Miramax; Synecdoche, New York, the directorial debut of Academy Award-winning screenwriter Charlie Kaufman, starring Phillip Seymour Hoffman for Sony Pictures Classics; and the remake of its own 2006 British comedy Death at a Funeral, with co-writer/co-producer Chris Rock leading an all-star ensemble cast; the Academy Award-nominated United 93 directed by Paul Greengrass, in association with Universal Pictures, who was nominated for an Academy Award for his direction of the film; and the critical hit Breach, starring Chris Cooper, Ryan Phillippe and Laura Linney.
Prior Kimmel releases include Marc Forster's The Kite Runner, based on the acclaimed novel of the same name, produced with DreamWorks Pictures, Participant Productions, and Parkes/MacDonald Productions, released by Paramount Vantage; the Academy-Award nominated Lars and the Real Girl, starring Ryan Gosling, Patricia Clarkson, and Emily Mortimer, directed by Craig Gillespie and released by MGM.
BEN COCCIO (Writer)
Coccio’s award-winning first feature Zero Day was a controversial hit on the festival circuit before it premiered theatrically in America. Coccio was nominated for the 2004 ‘Someone to Watch’ Independent Spirit Award. Recently, he co-wrote The Place Beyond The Pines with acclaimed director Derek Cianfrance. Ben Coccio studied film at the Rhode Island School Of Design. He is represented by CAA and Media Talent Group.
DARIUS MARDER (Writer)
Darius Marder is a writer, director and editor. His directorial debut, Loot, premiered on HBO in 2009. Loot was awarded the Best Documentary Jury Prize at the 2008 Los Angeles Film Festival, was nominated for five Cinema Eye Awards and a Spirit Award.
A long time editor, Darius has worked on films including the Oscar® and Sundance-winning documentary Freeheld, Emmy award-winning Good Fortune, and the Oscar® nominated Sun Come Up.
In 2011 Darius collaborated with Derek Cianfrance and Ben Coccio to write the script, The Place Beyond The Pines starring Ryan Gosling and Bradley Cooper. Darius lives in Brooklyn, NY, with his wife and two children.
JIM TAUBER (Executive Producer)
President and COO, Jim Tauber, has extensive experience working on both studio and independent productions. At SKE he has overseen the company’s financing, production and distribution of 25 films, including Lars and the Real Girl, The Lincoln Lawyer and the soon to be released Stand-Up Guys. He joined SKE after a three year stint at Twentieth Century Fox, where he was Worldwide Executive Vice President, Acquisitions & Co-productions. He formerly served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Anonymous Content, helping to found and manage the multimedia company. Tauber segued to Anonymous from Propaganda Films where, during his tenure as president and COO, he oversaw the production of more than 1000 music videos, 700 commercials and 30 feature films including David Fincher’s The Game and Spike Jonze’s Being John Malkovich. While at Propaganda he also helped to create the theatrical distribution company Gramercy for Polygram. From 1983-91, Tauber was Executive Vice President of Legal and Business Affairs and Acquisitions for Columbia/Tri-Star Pictures, responsible for structuring and negotiation for all home video, television and theatrical acquisition and sales agreements, as well as the production of over fifty films including sex, lies and videotape, and One False Move.
MATT BERENSON (Executive Producer)
Matt Berenson is President of Production at Sidney Kimmel Entertainment, where he has executive produced and overseen production on films including the upcoming The Place Beyond The Pines from writer/director Derek Cianfrance, starring Bradley Cooper and Ryan Gosling. He also served as an executive producer on SKE’s co-production with Lakeshore, Gone starring Amanda Seyfried, which Summit released February 24, 2012. Upcoming films include Stand Up Guys starring Al Pacino and Christopher Walken and Mr. Morgan’s Last Love starring Michael Caine.
In 2003, he produced Daddy Day Care starring Eddie Murphy with Davis Entertainment. It grossed $105 million domestic and has sold 5 million DVDs to date. He was also an executive producer on its sequel, Daddy Day Camp (2007).
Following that, he was President of Production at Carsey-Werner Films for three years, during which time he produced Universal’s Let’s Go To Prison starring Dax Shepard and Will Arnett. He also produced the Sony/Revolution comedy The Brothers Solomon starring Will Forte & Will Arnett, and executive produced Smother starring Diane Keaton and produced by Jay Roach.
Before Carsey-Werner, Berenson was the Executive V.P. of Production for Red Wagon Entertainment. There, he developed the Robin Williams family comedy RV and was the executive in charge of production on Dreamworks’ Win A Date With Tad Hamilton.
He also served for two years as the Vice President, Production at Jersey Films, where he worked on such films as Erin Brockovich and Out Of Sight.
Berenson graduated from Princeton University in 1990 with a B.A. in History.
INBAL WEINBERG (Production Designer)
Inbal Weinberg (Production Design) has been working as a production designer for feature films and TV since her graduation from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts in 2003 with a B.F.A. in film. Her film credits include Academy Award nominated Frozen River (Grand Jury Prize, Sundance Film Festival 2008), Sundance Lab projects Don't Let Me Drown (Sundance Film Festival 2009), Pariah (Sundance Film Festival 2011) and Return (Cannes Film Festival 2011), and the comedies Ceremony and Our Idiot Brother, starring Paul Rudd, Zooey Deschanel and Elizabeth Banks.
Inbal art directed Half Nelson, her first collaboration with Ryan Gosling and with the producing team behind The Place Beyond The Pines. She then went on to design Derek Cianfrance's Academy Award nominated Blue Valentine, starring Gosling and Michelle Williams (Sundance and Cannes Film Festival 2010). The team reunited once more for the filming of The Place Beyond The Pines in the summer of 2011.
Most recently, Inbal designed The Perks Of Being A Wallflower starring Emma Watson and Logan Lerman. Inbal is currently in production on The Angriest Man In Brooklyn, a dark comedy starring Robin Williams and Mila Kunis.
SEAN BOBBITT (Director of Photography)
Sean began his career as a news cameraman in the early 1980s working with the American Networks covering the major hotspots of the world. He then went on to shoot documentaries working with such directors as Angus McQueen, Nick Read and Jonathan Miller, and companies such as Brook Lapping.
In the late 90’s Sean began shooting drama for both film and television and in 1999 shot Wonderland for Michael Winterbottom. Other film credits include The Situation directed by Philip Haas, starring Damian Lewis and Connie Neilson; The Baker directed by Gareth Lewis, starring Damian Lewis, and Mrs Ratcliffe’s Revolution for director Billie Eltringham starring Iain Glenn and Catherine Tate.
In 2008 he shot Director Steve McQueen’s debut feature Hunger, which garnered huge critical acclaim and won, amongst others, the prestigious Camera d’Or at Cannes. Sean also won a BIFA Technical Achievement Award for his work. Sean has collaborated with Steve on several art installations including his 2009 Venice Biennale piece, Giardini.
Television credits include such award winning dramas as Sense And Sensibility (for which Sean was Emmy-nominated for ‘Best Cinematography’), The Long Firm (for which he received a BAFTA Nomination for ‘Best Photography’), Canterbury Tales (for which he won an RTS Award for ‘Best Photography’), and Unforgiven for director David Evans.
2010 was a particularly busy year for Sean, which saw him re-team with Michael Winterbottom on both Seven Days and The Killer Inside Me. That same year, Sean also shot Africa United and Hysteria; a romantic comedy about the invention of the vibrator. Sean reunited with Steve McQueen on Shame starring Michael Fassbender and, most recently, Twelve Years A Slave starring Chiwetel Ejiofor and Brad Pitt. Sean also completed Neil Jordan’s Byzantium starring Saoirse Ronan and Gemma Arterton and Derek Cianfrance’s The Place Beyond The Pines starring Ryan Gosling, Eva Mendes and Bradley Cooper.
ERIN BENACH (Costume Designer)
Erin’s work on Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive, starring Carey Mulligan and Ryan Gosling garnered her a nomination by the Costume Designer’s Guild in 2012. Benach designed the Lionsgate feature Lincoln Lawyer which stars Ryan Phllippe, Marisa Tomei, and Matthew McConaughey. She collaborated with director Derek Cianfrance on Blue Valentine pairing her with actor, Ryan Gosling and the Oscar Nominated actress, Michelle Williams. Erin is responsible for the costume design on director Ryan Fleck’s Sugar, his follow up feature to Erin’s first feature, Half Nelson. Derek Cianfrance’s new film The Place Beyond The Pines with Bradley Cooper, Ryan Gosling and Eva Mendez will premiere at the Toronto Film Festival in September 2012. Erin most recently completed Andrew Niccol’s science fiction feature, The Host which is currently scheduled for a US release on March 29, 2013.
JIM HELTON (Editor)
Jim Helton is best known for his collaborations with director Derek Cianfrance, having co-edited Blue Valentine, Black and White: A Portrait of Sean Combs, the upcoming Place Beyond the Pines and Cagefighter. Jim previously edited, Kill the Ego, The Power of Dreams - Dream the Impossible, Ironic Iconic America, Lovely by Surprise, Lately There Have Been Many Misunderstandings in the Zimmerman Home, Battlegrounds: King of the Court, Fade to Black , Battlegrounds: King of the World, and Quattro Noza.
RON PATANE (Editor)
Ron is best known for his collaborations with director Derek Cianfrance, having co-edited the critically acclaimed Blue Valentine starring Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams, as well as The Place Beyond The Pines with Bradley Cooper, Ryan Gosling, and Eva Mendez, which is set to premiere at the Toronto Film Festival in September. Both films were co-edited with frequent collaborator Jim Helton. Ron graduated from Vassar College in 1999 with a degree in Philosophy and shortly thereafter moved to New York and has been working in the film industry ever since, moving between the worlds of narrative, documentary, experimental film, commercials, television, and music videos.
THE PLACE BEYOND THE PINES
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Unit Production Manager
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CARRIE FIX
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First Assistant Director
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MARIELA COMITINI
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Second Assistant Director
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BRAD ROBINSON
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Associate Producers
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KATIE McNEILL
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CRYSTAL POWELL
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CAST
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(In Order of Appearance)
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Luke
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RYAN GOSLING
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Jack
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CRAIG VAN HOOK
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Romina
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EVA MENDES
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Malena
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OLGA MEREDIZ
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Baby Jason
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ANTHONY ANGELO PIZZA, JR.
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Kofi
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MAHERSHALA ALI
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Priest
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REV. JOHN FACCI
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Robin
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BEN MENDELSOHN
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Robin's Dogs
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TULA
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PENNY
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Teller #1 - Bank #1
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CYNTHIA PELLETIER-SULLIVAN
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Teller #2 - Bank #1
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MACKENZIE TRAINOR
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Teller #3 - Bank #1
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NICOLE CALIFANO
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Lady In Ice Cream Shop
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SHANNON PLUMB
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Teller #1 - Bank #2
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TRACEY AGUSTIN
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Teller #2 - Bank #2
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EAN EGAS
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Banker Outside Bank #2
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BOB DIETERICH
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Booking Officer
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THOMAS MATTICE
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Arresting Officer
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ADAM NOWICHI
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Court Lawyer
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MARK J. CARUSO
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Judge #1
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G. DOUGLAS GRISET
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Court Officer
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VANESSA THORPE
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Teller - Bank #3
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GAIL MARTINO
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Officer Jefferson
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BRIAN SMYJ
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Avery
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BRADLEY COOPER
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Mother At Home
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DOROTHY RUTHERFORD
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Officer at Shootout Scene
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PAUL STEELE
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Scott
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GABE FAZIO
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Jennifer
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ROSE BYRNE
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Baby AJ
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TRAVIS JACKSON CAMPBELL
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TREVOR JACKSON CAMPBELL
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Al Cross
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HARRIS YULIN
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Nurse
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JAN LIBERTUCCI
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Chief Weirzbowski
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ROBERT CLOHESSY
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Bill Killcullen
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BRUCE GREENWOOD
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Reporter #1
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SUBRINA DHAMMI
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Jennifer’s Mother
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HEATHER CHESTNUT
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Cory Gilbeau
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GRETA SEACAT
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Deluca
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RAY LIOTTA
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Doc Crowley
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LUCA PIERUCCI
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Reporter #2
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JESSICA LAYTON
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Funeral Director
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JAMES J. GLEASON
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Preacher
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PATRICK HUSTED
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AJ
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EMORY COHEN
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Campaign Manager
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JOE McCARTHY
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Campaign Advisor
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JEFREY POLLOCK
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Political Media Advisor
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LYNETTE HOWELL
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Guidance Counselor
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SARAH CURCIO
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Jason
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DANE DEHAAN
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Benny
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EPHRAIM BENTON
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Drug Busting Cop #1
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MARK McCRACKEN
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Drug Busting Cop #2
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ADRIEL LINYEAR
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Interrogating Cop
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KEVIN GREEN
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Public Defender
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JENNIFER SOBER
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Judge #2
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MELISSA MILLS
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Alex
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ALEX PULLING
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Dante
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DANTE SHAFER
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Vanessa
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KAYLA SMALLS
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Pharmacy Clerk
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FRANK J. FALVO
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Leah
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LEAH BLIVEN
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Whitney
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WHITNEY HUDSON
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Breanna
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BREANNA DOLEN
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State Senator
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HUGH T. FARLEY
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Mr. Anthony
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MICHAEL CULLEN
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Extra Special Thanks
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