Trading Favors

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Trading Favors
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Film poster
Directed by Sondra Locke
Screenplay by
  • Timothy Albaugh
  • Tag Mendillo
Story byTimothy Albaugh
Produced byDon Dunn
Andrew Form
Rick Lashbrook
Tag Mendillo
Starring
CinematographySidney Sidell
Julie Rogers
Edited byAnnette Davey
Music by Jeff Rona
Production
companies
Mendillo/Form Productions
Rick Lashbrook Films
Distributed byDo Me a Favor Productions
Imperial Entertainment
Trimark Home Video
Release date
  • June 4, 1997 (1997-06-04)
(Hungary)
Running time
103 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Trading Favors is a 1997 American film directed by Sondra Locke starring Rosanna Arquette. [1]

Contents

Plot

Lincoln Muller's life turns upside down when he asks an attractive woman to buy him a beer at a convenience store. Then he learns that both she and her abusive boyfriend are into crime and violence, and Lincoln has been sucked in whether he likes it or not.

Cast

Production

The original script title was Do Me a Favor.

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References

  1. Sondra Locke. The Good, the Bad, and the Very Ugly: A Hollywood Journey 1997. "The film, Do Me a Favor, which starred Rosanna Arquette, Devon Gummersall (of TV's My So-Called Life and Relativity), Peter Green, a brilliant actor, and Cuba ..."