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Sitting Ducks is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Henry Jaglom released in USA on 4 april 1980 with Henry Jaglom

Sitting Ducks (1980)

Sitting Ducks
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Released in USA 4 april 1980
Length 1h27
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Comedy,    Crime
Rating60% 3.0468053.0468053.0468053.0468053.046805

Sitting Ducks is a 1980 American comedy film directed by Henry Jaglom. The film follows the adventures of two small-time hoods (Zack Norman and Michael Emil, Jaglom’s real-life brother) who steal a considerable amount of cash from a gambling syndicate. While fleeing by car down the U.S. eastern seaboard for a chartered airplane that will take them to Central America, they pick up a pair of vivacious young ladies and an unsuccessful singer-songwriter.

The film competed in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival.

Actors

Henry Jaglom

(The Bad Guy)
Frances Fisher
Richard Romanus

(Moose Joe Mastaki)
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