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Bryan Cranston Hides And Watches In 'Wakefield'

Bryan Cranston plays a man who settles in to spy on his own family in Wakefield, a story with roots going all the way back to Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Bryan Cranston plays Howard Wakefield, a man who leaves his family to become a man who watches his family.

There's a whiff of John Cheever-ish unease in , a quietly unsettling drama about a man who disappears from his suburban home, only to spy on his family's response from a house across the street. In fact, the movie is based on a 2008 short story by E.L. Doctorow, which in turn was inspired by a Nathaniel Hawthorne tale with the same premise, written in

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