How Do You Wouldn T Hurt Me Would You Brahms?

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“You wouldn’t hurt me, would you Brahms?” says Lauren Cohan playing the main role of Greta in The Boy.
The Boy is a suspenseful thrill ride directed by William Brent Bell and written by Stacey Menear. Greta, a young woman, leaves America trying to escape a bad romantic passed. The movie begins with Greta arriving at an old country mansion up in the UK to take a job as a nanny of a 8-year-old boy. Little did she know that the boy she is to care for is actually a life-size doll. Her employers are an elderly couple who care for the doll as if it were human in order to cope with the death of their child Brahms, which occurred 20 years earlier. When her bosses leave on an extended trip, Gretta is left with list of strict rules to help care for

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