

Making Kayfabe
2024-02-23 · 44 min · Not rated
Facing a mid-life crisis, a journalist discovers the regular folk moonlighting as indie wrestlers, who help him transform his childhood dream into reality as "Fake Nooz Neville."
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- Omar Mouallem
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- Back Road Productions, CBC
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