Cookster: The Darkest Days

Cookster: The Darkest Days

2025 · 119 min · Drama, Crime

Misunderstood by his family, abandoned by the system, and desperate for respect, a dyslexic teenager becomes a drug dealer struggling to balance his addiction and debt to a local gangster while a rival threatens to destroy his world, driving him apart from the girl he loves and a daughter he's never known.

Directed by Stephen Roach · Written by Jason Cook

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