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American Strays | |
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Directed by | Michael Covert |
Written by | Michael Covert |
Produced by | Frank Agrama Trudi Callon Rod Dean Kirk Hassig Doug Textor |
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Music by | John R. Graham |
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Running time | 97 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Box office | $1,910 (US) [2] |
American Strays is a 1996 American comedy-drama film directed by Michael Covert. It follows three interwoven stories of desert travelers as they converge on a small diner.
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.
American Strays was released to a single theater on September 13, 1996. [3] The film grossed $1,183 in its opening weekend and $1,910 in total during its theatrical release. [3]
Stephen Holden of The New York Times wrote in his review that the film "has the germ of a good idea" but concluded American Strays is "a spoof in search of a sense of humor". [4]
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