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Erica Dunton’s dramatic thriller Pretty Ugly, set and filmed in Wilmington, headlines the 32nd annual Cucalorus Film Festival, screening at Thalian Hall on Saturday, November 21. Dunto’s seventh feature follows the complicated relationship between a cosmetology student and her mother, starring Nicola Peltz Beckham, Jazzy De Lisser, and Mary Stuart Masterson. Their lives unravel when a high-profile local influencer returns to town, coinciding with a sudden murder. The screening will take place on Saturday, November 21 at Thalian Hall.





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