Empty Nest (2008)
Genre : Drama
Runtime : 1H 31M
Director : Daniel Burman
Writer : Daniel Burman
Synopsis
Empty Nest tells the story of a couple who have to struggle to find themselves after their children grow up and move out. It starts out as a fairly simple story of a couple but becomes complicated by a series of events that may or may not be occurring only in Leonardo’s mind.
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