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FOURTH GRADE

By Marcelo GALVAO

GATACINE - as PROD

Drama - Completed 2020

When a brick of weed is found in a 4th Grade classroom, the students' parents gather in an emergency meeting to protect their own child from being expelled.

- Year of production
- 2020
- Genres
- Drama, Comedy
- Countries
- USA
- Languages
- ENGLISH-UNITED STATES
- Budget
- 1 - 3 M$
- Duration
- 80 mn
- Director(s)
- Marcelo GALVAO
- Writer(s)
- Marcelo GALVÃO
- Cast
- Teri POLO, William BALDWIN, Mena SUVARI, Taja SIMPSON, Robert PINE, Boti BLISS, Challen CATES, Ben BEGLEY, Jamison JONES, Pamela DUNLAP, Rigan MACHADO, Rob NORTON, Kely DANIELS, Roland KICKINGER
- Producer(s)
- Marcelo GALVÃO (Wolf In A Pack)
- Synopsis
- At a prestigious California primary school, a practical principal and a drama teacher gather the parents of the 4th Grade students to discuss an alarming situation: a brick of marijuana found in the theatre class. To protect the school's reputation, they need to expel the kid responsible for the weed.
  
  10 wealthy parents from Pacific Palisades and Eddie, an outsider, whose daughter just won a scholarship arrive at the meeting. After an aggressive discussion, the principal and the drama teacher leave the room. Eddie promises to find a solution within one hour and save the day. Accusations, intrigue, and insults ensue as the parents try and protect their own children.
  
  In an effort to calm the hostility and think more calmly, one of the parents proposes that they try a little of the weed themselves. In the process, fragile and obscure secrets are revealed, and perspectives begin to shift. The weed problem is exposed as hypocrisy, and heartfelt truths and camaraderie blossom.
  
  After A Poignant, hilarious, and intriguing journey, one of the parents realizes that the brick is actually just dry manure... There was never any weed to begin with.