Bitter Melon
5.7
2018
1 hr 50 min
Comedy
, Crime
Bitter Melon is a "home for the holidays" dark comedy where a Filipino-American family plots to kill an abusive member.
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- Cast：
- Jon Norman Schneider , Patrick Epino , Safiya Fredericks
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