The Secret Life of Words
Dec 15, 2005 | IMDB 7
115 min Watch NowRomance, Drama
A solitary nurse bonds with a badly burned patient who survived an accident on an oil rig.
Romance, Drama
A solitary nurse bonds with a badly burned patient who survived an accident on an oil rig.
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