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Watch Amandla Stenberg In Clip From ‘As You Are’<\/strong>Posted by Wilson Morales<\/p>\n

January 11, 2017<\/p>\n

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A clip has been posted online from the thriller ‘As You Are,’<\/strong> a breakout film from last\u00a0year’s Sundance Film Festival\u00a0that was written and directed by 23-year old Miles Joris-Peyrafitte.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The film follows three teens \u2014 Charlie Heaton<\/strong> (Netflix’s “Stranger Things”), Owen Campbell<\/strong> (HBO’s “Boardwalk Empire”) and rising “Hunger Games” actress Amandla Stenberg<\/strong> \u2014 who form a bond that is tested and maybe untethered while living in a small town.<\/p>\n

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Jack (Owen Campbell) is a high school student who lives with his single mother Karen (Mary\u00a0Stuart Masterson) in a nondescript suburban town. Considered a social outcast and loner, Jack\u00a0is friendless until Karen\u2019s new boyfriend Tom (Scott Cohen) moves in and brings his son Mark\u00a0(Charlie Heaton) into their lives. The two outsiders quickly bond and form a tight friendship\u00a0and, after a chance encounter at a diner, bring fellow student Sarah (Amandla Stenberg) into\u00a0their group. The three teens become each other\u2019s saving grace until changing relationships and\u00a0emerging secrets force them to look at themselves and see how far they are willing to go live\u00a0the lives they choose.<\/p>\n

Also featured in the film are John Scurti, Scott Cohen, Mary Stuart Masterson, Kim Grant, Annemarie Lawless, Billy Thomas Myott, Andrew Polk, John Romeo<\/strong>, and Christopher Dylan White<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The film is being released in theaters on February 24, 2017 in New York at the Village East Cinema with more cities to follow.<\/p>\n

Trailer<\/p>\n