Outkast (film)

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Outkast
Directed by Chico Ejiro
Produced byChico Ejiro
Starring
  • Sandra Achums
  • Lilian Bach
  • Saidi Balogun
  • Jude Ezenwa
Production
company
Grand Touch Pictures
Distributed bySerafim Productions (Europe)
Release date
  • 2001 (2001)
CountryNigeria
LanguageEnglish

Outkast is a 2001 Nigerian crime-drama film produced and directed by Chico Ejiro. [1]

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Plot

The movie involves a group of Nigerian sex workers who are deported from Italy. When they return to Lagos, they resort to violent crime and exploitation to make money. [2]

Cast

  • Lucinda Abazie
  • Sandra Achums
  • Percy Aigobojie
  • Lilian Bach
  • Bobby Ejike
  • Saidi Balogun
  • Jude Ezenwa
  • Shan George
  • Njideka Nnamani
  • Lilian Nwosu
  • Sola Sobowale
  • Bob-Manuel Udokwu
  • Francis Okonkwo
  • Bukky Wright

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References

  1. "Outkast full cast & crew". Uzomedia. 6 May 2016.
  2. "The trailer of Outkast at the Nollywood Project of Southern Illinois University at Carbondale". Siu.edu. 4 March 2015. Archived from the original on 22 May 2007.

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