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Cold Dog Soup is a British film of genre Thriller directed by Alan Metter with Randy Quaid
Cold Dog Soup (1990)
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Add to a movie listCold Dog Soup is a 1990 film directed by Alan Metter. It is based on the novel Cold Dog Soup by Stephen Dobyns.
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Randy Quaid plays a zen taxi driver whose passenger is trying to dispose of his date's dead dog Jasper. The driver is respected by the peculiar groups he interests in the dog's corpse and effects, and the one-gloved heroine becomes more interested in him than in her date.Actors
Randy Quaid
(Jack Cloud)
Frank Whaley
(Michael Latchmer)
Christine Harnos
(Sarah Hughes)
Sheree North
(Mrs. Hughes)
Nancy Kwan
(Madame Chang)
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