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29 Palms (2002)

29 Palms poster
Directed by
Leonardo Ricagni
Genre
thriller film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 33m
Rated
R
Rating
4.7 of 10 from 38 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A bag of money circulates through a group of people in the California desert. Each person who possesses the bag faces the consequences of their greed and desperation.

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What happens

29 Palms is a 2002 crime thriller film directed by Leonardo Ricagni and starring Jeremy Davies, Rachael Leigh Cook, Michael Lerner, Litefoot, Russell Means, Chris O'Donnell, Keith David, Michael Rapaport and Jon Polito. The film is about a bag of money that affects the characters who possess it, and its varied contents, as it passes from one to another. In 2002 Eagle Pictures released the film under the Italian title La Grande Sfida (The Great Challenge) on DVD. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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