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Animal Shorts

We’re Leaving

12m

Directed by Zachary Treitz • 2011 • United States
Starring Rusty Blanton, Veronica Blanton, David Maloney

Facing eviction, trailer-park resident Rusty Blanton is given thirty days to find a new home for himself, his wife, and their nineteen-year-old pet alligator, Chopper.

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