American Dreamer

Sep 20, 2019

1h 32m

★ 6.1

There are no free rides.

Overview

A down on his luck driver making extra cash chauffeuring a low level drug dealer around town, finds himself in a serious financial bind and decides to kidnap the dealer's child.

Genres

Thriller

Crime

Production Companies

Storyland Pictures

Sugar Pictures LA

Old Dominion University

XYZ Films

American Dreamer Trailers

Cast

Cam

Jim Gaffigan

Mazz

Robbie Jones

Marina

Isabel Arraiza

Becca

Tammy Blanchard

Dontrell

Eric D. Hill Jr.

Andre

Curtis Lyons

Greg

Brian K. Landis

Adam

Harrison Fall

Grandmother

Cynthia Tademy

Officer Watson

Tommy Coleman

A microcosm of people lost in search of an artificial happiness, which leads them to steal and prostitute themselves for the short ecstasy of a squirt of heroin in the veins. Marco and Pina live in this world of drugs, prostitution and violence, and they must fight for their survival. One day one of their friend dies during a holdup. Marco and Pina are helpless and will do anything to escape, but fate does not want a similar world. Between bites of heroin and sidewalk they are in a deadly trance.

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