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Miracles are made by people who refuse to stop believing.
Movie · 7.5 / 10 · 608 ratings · 10 Sept 2014 · English · 1h 50m · Released
A young refugee of the Sudanese Civil War who wins a lottery for relocation to the United States with three other lost boys. Encountering the modern world for the first time, they develop an unlikely friendship with a brash American woman assigned to help them, but the young man struggles to adjust to this new life and his feelings of guilt about the brother he left behind.
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