# Mean Creek (2004)

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**Runtime**: 90 min
**Genres**: Crime, Drama
**Directed by**: Jacob Aaron Estes
**Written by**: Jacob Aaron Estes
**Starring**: Rory Culkin, Scott Mechlowicz, Trevor Morgan, Josh Peck, Ryan Kelley, Carly Schroeder

> *Beneath the surface, everyone has a secret.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

You plan a twisted prank for the school bully’s thirteenth birthday and drive him deep into Mean Creek. The joke twists but the victim can’t swim back. Jacob Aaron Estes shoots the moral weather changing in real time.

**Mood tags**: bittersweet, gut-punch, outsider, raw

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