Dowry's Sugar Bowl
Genres
Overview
Ata and Masoumeh are living in a rented house. Their lease time is over and they can not pay the rent added. But they like to stay and live in this house...
Details
Budget
$0
Revenue
$0
Runtime
93 min
Release Date
2015-08-12
Status
Released
Original Language
Persian
Vote Count
8
Vote Average
5.2
Akbar Abdi
Karim Akbari Mobarakeh
Afsane Chehreazad
Negar Javaherian
Vahid Nafar
Mostafa Sasani
Saber Abar
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6.8
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7.2
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0.0
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6.7
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6.0
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8.2
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5.9
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6.0
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6.1
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5.5
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0.0
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