Top Cast
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Rhavin Banda
Radhesh Balasubramanian
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Dev Patel
Himself
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Freida Pinto
Herself
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Nelson Blattman
Matteo
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Mathilde Anglade
Mrs Gedler
Overview
Radhesh, a high school student in Sydney’s affluent Bondi, betrays close relationships and his own self worth in order to claw his way up the social ladder.
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Almost Friends
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CQ
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2:37
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House of D
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Code 3
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Mickybo and Me
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American Fiction
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The Infidel
A girl who halfheartedly tries to be part of the "in crowd" of her school meets a rebel who teaches her a more devious way to play social politics: by killing the popular kids.