The Boy
Every child needs to feel loved.
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A psychological horror-thriller that uses a haunted doll and a remote English mansion to explore grief, loss, and the uncanny boundaries between the animate and inanimate.
A young American woman takes a job as a nanny in a remote English village, soon discovering that the family's eight-year-old son is a life-sized doll that comes with a list of strict rules.
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