Like his famous uncle in his youth, Jeffrey Wahlberg looks set to become a teen heartthrob when he hits the big screen in the indie drama Please Don't Come Back from the Moon.

Though in the very early stages of development, the young actor – nephew to, of course, Mark Wahlberg and son of filmmaker Jim Wahlberg - is sure to catch the eye of cinema goers with his chiselled good looks as he takes centre stage in the project which is being produced by James Franco and follows the lives of teens in a California desert town where all fathers have deserted their families.

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