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Cocaine: One Man's Seduction is a american film of genre Drama directed by Paul Wendkos released in USA on 8 august 1983 with Dennis Weaver
Cocaine: One Man's Seduction (1983)
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Add to a movie listCocaine: One Man's Seduction is a 1983 television film directed by Paul Wendkos, starring Dennis Weaver as a real estate agent who gets addicted to cocaine.
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Eddie Gant (Weaver) was once a highly successful real estate agent, the number one for over ten years, but is now struggling to sell houses, and is frustrated that the company’s top salesman is now Tad Voss (Le Plat), a young snob. He is pressured into selling family houses, considered a dead market, and wants to break out but does not know how. When his boss Dan Hatten (Venture) does not make him partner even though he promised him, Eddie suffers a major setback, and finds solace with cocaine, arranged through his business friends Robin Barstowe (Bellwood) and Bruce Neumann (Ackroyd).Actors
Dennis Weaver
(Eddie Gant)
Karen Grassle
(Barbara Gant)
Pamela Bellwood
(Robin Barstowe)
James Spader
(Buddy Gant)
Jeffrey Tambor
(Mort Broome)
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