American Strays
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Michael Covert
Jennifer Tilly
Eric Roberts
John Savage
Luke Perry
Carol Kane
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
It's a time-honored tradition in the American West that madness and malevolence fit into normal, everyday life, along with big guns, big cars and the open road. "American Strays" is made up of three stories related by time, place, and attitude. In one story, Dwayne, a vacuum cleaner salesman leaves a trail of dead customers across the Southwest. Could he have met his match in Patty Mae, a vixen who collects vacuum cleaners and then bumps off their hapless salesmen? In another, Johnny is an inept milquetoast who is so depressed and beaten down that he can't even manage to kill himself. Desperate to end it all, he hires an eager psychopathic hit man who helps people commit suicide and in the process finds his soul. The third story gathers a twisted, but curiously likable collection of misfits criss-cross on the desert floor, spiraling ever-closer to their final destination, Red's Desert Oasis Diner, where passion, frustration, perversion and dementia explode into a fiery free for all.
Cast
Jennifer Tilly
Eric Roberts
John Savage
Luke Perry
Carol Kane
Joe Viterelli
James Russo
Vonte Sweet
Sam J. Jones
Brion James
Toni Kalem
Melora Walters
Scott Plank
Anthony Lee
Stephanie Cushna
Stace Williamson
Luana Anders
Robert Fields
Jack Kehler
Charles Bailey-gates
Tom Eliot
Will Rothhaar
Jessica Perelman
Mike Horse
Patrick Warburton
Mike Kaliski
Leland Crooke
Crew
Frank Agrama
Joe Barnett
Karen Bass
Bobby Bullon
Trudi Callon
Richard S Chang
Michael Covert
Rod Dean
Rod Dean
Elizabeth Ervin
Tanya Gill
John R Graham
Mary E Gullickson
Kirk Hassig
Kirk Hassig
Paul Holt
Denise Hudson
Sheila Jaffe
Agda Lavadenz
Daryl Linkow
Ron Long
Lydia Milars
Sean Mutarevic
Sean Mutarevic
Benjamin Patrick
Linda Samodral
Norman Siderow
David Strupp
Marina Tarpin
Marina Tarpin
Douglas Textor
Georgianne Walken
Bryan Yaconelli
Film Details
Technical Specs
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Trivia
Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States Fall September 13, 1996
Released in United States on Video November 5, 1996
Feature directorial debut for former actor Michael Covert.
Began shooting during 1991.
Completed shooting during 1995.
Released in United States Fall September 13, 1996
Released in United States on Video November 5, 1996
