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Saint John of Las Vegas (2009)

Saint John of Las Vegas poster
Directed by
Hue Rhodes
Genre
comedy drama
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 25m
Rated
R
Rating
5.7 of 10 from 55 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

An ex-gambler gets a job with an auto insurance company. He goes on a road trip with a coworker to investigate a fraud claim. They meet a series of strange characters along the way.

quirkydeadpanoffbeatunevenwhimsicalsubdueddryly humorous

What happens

Saint John of Las Vegas is a 2009 American comedy-drama film starring Steve Buscemi, Romany Malco, and Sarah Silverman. St. John of Las Vegas was the first film released by IndieVest Pictures, a subsidiary of IndieVest. The film, directed and written for the screen by Hue Rhodes (based on a story by Dante Alighieri) and produced by Steve Buscemi, Stanley Tucci, and Spike Lee, follows an ex-gambler as he takes a road trip with his new partner, an auto insurance fraud debunker, to investigate a fraud, while meeting a series of offbeat characters, including a carnival's human torch, a paraplegic stripper, and a nude militant, along the way. The film was shown in film festivals and was released in limited release on January 29, 2010. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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