The Long Call

6.2IMDb Score
Released:2021-10-25
Genre:Crime, Drama
Duration: min
Country:United Kingdom
Director:Lee Haven Jones
Actors:Ben Aldridge, Pearl Mackie, Juliet Stevenson, Martin Shaw, Anita Dobson
Production:Silverprint Pictures

Overview:

Detective Matthew Venn returns to the small North Devon community he grew up in with his husband and begins investigating a murder whilst coming to terms with his own traumatic past, having been excommunicated by his family and the church community they lived in.

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