Lake Mungo
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A restrained faux-documentary about loss and inexplicable encounters, built from accumulating fragments and a profoundly unsettled sense that tragedy has not ended.
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01 / THE STORY
''Washington Post'' columnist John Klein and his wife Mary are involved in an accident when Mary swerves to avoid a black, flying figure. John survives the crash unscathed, but Mary is hospitalized. After Mary dies of an unrelated brain tumor, John discovers mysterious drawings of the creature that she had created prior to the night of the accident.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME

John Klein

Connie Mills

Gordon Smallwood

Mary Klein

Ed Fleischman
Nat Griffin
Chief Josh Jarrett
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