Leather Jackets (film)

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Leather Jackets
Leather Jackets (1992) poster.jpg
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Directed byLee Drysdale
Written byLee Drysdale
Produced by Cassian Elwes
Starring D.B. Sweeney
Bridget Fonda
Cary Elwes
CinematographyJames Chressanthis
Edited byNed Humphreys
Music by Shlomo Artzi
Distributed by Triumph Films
Release date
  • 1992 (1992)
Running time
90 minutes
Country United States
LanguageEnglish

Leather Jackets is a 1992 film directed and written by Lee Drysdale in his directorial debut. It was shot on Highland Park, Los Angeles, California in 1990. The film stars D. B. Sweeney, Bridget Fonda and Cary Elwes.

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Plot

Ex-con Mickey (D.B. Sweeney) decides to go straight, work a legitimate blue-collar job and ask his friend Claudi (Bridget Fonda) to marry him. Unfortunately, before the wedding can happen and the couple can finally leave their one-horse town, their troubled pal Dobbs (Cary Elwes) arrives and begs his buddies to help him escape from a deadly gang that he recently crossed. Soon, the mobsters track down Claudi, Mickey and Dobbs, and the unlucky trio must then run for their lives.

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References

  1. "Leather Jackets - D.B Sweeney". TV Guide .
  2. Scott, Walter (May 26, 1991). "Personality Parade". Parade . p. 2. Retrieved 2022-07-12. Fonda—who has earned parts in "Scandal," "The Godfather, Part III" and other pictures—recently starred in Drysdale's directorial debut, "Leather Jackets."