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Electric Slide is a american film of genre Thriller released in USA on 22 april 2014 with Jim Sturgess
Electric Slide (2014)
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Add to a movie listElectric Slide is a 2014 American biographical crime film written and directed by Tristan Patterson. It stars Jim Sturgess as Los Angeles-based bank robber Eddie Dodson, who robbed 64 banks in 1983 before he was caught. It premiered at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival and received a limited theatrical release in April 2015.
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Eddie Dodson borrows money from the bank to finance a stylish furniture shop that doubles as a nightclub. When he is unable to pay back the loans, he turns to loan shark Roy Fortune. After his upper-class girlfriend, Charlotte, dumps him, Dodson steals an expensive vase from his friend Tina and pawns it for a starting pistol. While at a nightclub, he meets Pauline, and, after she insists he give her ride, they begin dating after bonding over their love of trendy Los Angeles punk music. Dodson confides in her that he plans to rob a bank.Actors
Jim Sturgess
(Eddie Dodson)
Isabel Lucas
(Pauline)
Chloë Sevigny
(Charlotte)
Patricia Arquette
(Tina)
Christophe Lambert
(Roy Fortune)
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