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Happy, Texas is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Mark Illsley released in USA on 3 december 1999 with Steve Zahn
Happy, Texas (1999)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 3 december 1999
Length 1h38
Directed by Mark Illsley
OriginUSA
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Musical films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Rating62%
Happy, Texas is a comedy film released in 1999 directed by Mark Illsley, and starring Steve Zahn, Jeremy Northam and William H. Macy.
Synopsis
Three prisoners escape from a chain gang, and two of them, Wayne and Harry (Zahn and Northam) run away to Happy, Texas, where they pose as the gay organizers of a beauty pageant. They put on a show with the small girls of the town while hiding from the law and waiting for the opportunity to rob the local bank.Actors
Steve Zahn
(Wayne Wayne Wayne Jr.)
Jeremy Northam
(Harry Sawyer)
William H. Macy
(Sheriff Chappy Dent)
Ally Walker
(Josephine "Joe" McClintock)
Illeana Douglas
(Doreen Schaefer)
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