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You can't choose your family...or can you?

5.5

1h 32m

2012

“You can't choose your family...or can you?”

Synopsis

Having a self-absorbed New Age mother and an estranged father has meant 15-year-old Ellis Whitman has grown up relying on an unconventional guardian: a goat-trekking, marijuana-growing sage called 'Goat Man'. When Ellis decides to leave the alternative ways of his desert homestead for a stuffy East Coast prep school, major changes are in store.

Director

Christopher Neil

Trailer

Comedy

high schoolgoat

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Cast & Crew

David Duchovny

David Duchovny

as Goat Man

Vera Farmiga

Vera Farmiga

as Wendy Whitman

Graham Phillips

Graham Phillips

as Ellis Whitman

Keri Russell

Keri Russell

as Judy Whitman

Justin Kirk

Justin Kirk

as Bennet

Ty Burrell

Ty Burrell

as Frank Whitman

Dakota Johnson

Dakota Johnson

as Minnie

Anthony Anderson

Anthony Anderson

as Coach

Adelaide Kane

Adelaide Kane

as Aubrey

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