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REEL SOUTH
Discount Funeral
Season 11
Episode 1104
Through raw, unfiltered glimpses of dozens of lives in Birmingham, Alabama, Discount Funeral stitches together faces, places, and fleeting moments into a surreal portrait of America. Fragmented yet intimate, the film reveals the beauty, grit, and quiet strangeness embedded in everyday existence.
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