Huckleberry Finn: A Close Place

Original title: Huck & Jim

“You can't pray a lie.”

Directed by Frank Tovar

Transposing Mark Twain's immortal anti-racist novel to 2017, "Huckleberry Finn: A Close Place" depicts the friendship that develops between a poor Missouri boy and an undocumented African immigrant as they drift down the Mississippi River on a makeshift raft in pursuit of freedom.