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Summary: A young girl lost in the loneliness and boredom of reality finds solace in an ill boy, whom she can visit in a surreal dream world that she drew in her school composition book.
Runtime: 1 h 32 min
MPAA: PG-13
Production: Working Title Films
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
Domestic: $ 241,278
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