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American Strays

1996, Movie, R, 93 mins

AMERICAN STRAYS
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One more strenuously quirky, testosterone-fueled attempt to appropriate the Quentin Tarantino formula and mix up a cult hit. Writer-director Michael Covert introduces a variety of killers, creeps and born victims, and sends them down a series of desolate highways towards a date with destiny at an isolated diner. Squabbling Mafia hit men (James Russo and Joe Viterelli) with a cop in the trunk of their Lincoln Town car, sex-mad honeymooners with a pile of stolen cash, a high-strung dad (Eric Roberts) pushed to the limit by his horrid family, trash-talking drug dealers, a serial killer posing as a vacuum-cleaner salesman (John Savage) and the baby-voiced housewife (Jennifer Tilly) he plans to kill, a handsome masochist (Luke Perry) trying to kill himself... you can hear Covert chuckling at his infinite cleverness in imagining such wacky characters. As they babble endlessly on, PULP FICTION's riffs on the mysteries of le Big Mac and the relative filth of pigs and dogs echo, unbidden, in one's ears. And how self-referential that their paths are going to converge at Red's Desert Oasis: Any movie that can stick an hommage to Antonioni onto a weathered roadside attraction sign must be too cool for words. Unless, of course, it's just derivative and ultimately rather trying. The cinematography's great and the cast is certainly interesting, but it all sounds better than it plays. leave a comment
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