Russkies

Russkies

Sometimes the worst of enemies can become the best of friends.

198799 min5.2 / 10

A heartwarming Cold War-era family film about American boys befriending a Russian sailor, celebrating friendship and understanding across ideological divides.

A group of American boys discovers a Russian sailor washed up on the coast of Florida and decide to befriend him, assuming that he is friendly and will bring them no danger and thus go against the ideas of their parents, as well as the government.

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