A Gun for Jennifer | |
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Directed by | Todd Morris |
Written by | Todd Morris Deborah Twiss |
Produced by | Deborah Twiss |
Starring | Deborah Twiss |
Cinematography | Joe di Gennaro Eliot Rockett David Tumblety |
Edited by | Todd Morris Rachel Warden |
Music by | JF Coleman |
Production company | Independent Partners |
Distributed by | Action Gitanes Conspiracy Films Inc. |
Running time | 85 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
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The movie was covered in the documentary In the Belly of the Beast, [4] which detailed Morris and Twiss's discovery that their financier (whom Twiss had met while working as an exotic dancer) [5] had been embezzling money. [6] [7]
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