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American Strays is a american film of genre Comedy released in USA on 12 september 1996 with Luke Perry

American Strays (1996)

American Strays
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Released in USA 12 september 1996
Length 1h37
OriginUSA
Genres Comedy,    Comedy-drama,    Action
Rating52% 2.612342.612342.612342.612342.61234

American Strays is a 1996 American Comedy-Drama film which follows three interwoven stories of desert travelers as they converge on a small diner.

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Red's Desert Diner Oasis, a dive in the middle of nowhere, becomes the focal point of three separate storylines. In the first, Dwayne (Savage), a homicidal vacuum cleaner salesman, may have met his match in Patty Mae (Tilly), a woman with an impressive collection of sweepers. The second story follows Johnny (Perry), a suicidal man who hires a sadistic hitman (Jones) to end his life anyway possible which includes beating the ever loving crap out of him. The third story follows an unemployed man (Roberts) and his family, two mobsters (Viterelli and Russo), and others as they travel across the emptiness of the American Southwest.

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