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The Coverup is a american film of genre Drama directed by Brian Jun released in USA on 18 october 2008 with Eliza Dushku
The Coverup (2008)
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Add to a movie listThe Coverup, previously known as The Thacker Case, is a crime-thriller film directed by Brian Jun and starring Gabriel Mann and Eliza Dushku.
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The story centers on around the mysterious death of repeat drunk driving offender Kevin Thacker and the discovery of his body in an alley behind the Marshalltown, Iowa, police department after his latest DUI arrest.Actors
Eliza Dushku
(Monica Wright)
Brian Krause
Gabriel Mann
(Stu Pepper)
Michelle Horn
Michael Welch
(Kevin Thacker)
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