
God's Pocket(2014)
A boozy lowlife tries to bury the truth about his crazy stepson's suspicious death, but a nosy newspaper columnist and the young man's mother complicate matters.


“The only thing he cares about is not caring.”
A teenager pretends to be dying from cancer as a way to cope with the realities of his daily existence and his father's terminal illness.

Dan Byrd
Norman Long

Emily VanCamp
Emily Parrish

Richard Jenkins
Doug Long

Adam Goldberg
Mr. Angelo

Billy Lush
James

Sewell Whitney
Dr. Malloy

John Aylward
Robert Bessent

Camille Mana

Jesse Head

Jeff Rosick
Norman is a drama film released in 2010. Directed by Jonathan Segal, it stars Dan Byrd, Emily VanCamp, Richard Jenkins. A teenager pretends to be dying from cancer as a way to cope with the realities of his daily existence and his father's terminal illness.
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