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Saint John of Las Vegas is a american film of genre Comedy released in USA on 10 june 2009 with Romany Malco
Saint John of Las Vegas (2009)
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Add to a movie listSaint 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.
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A compulsive gambler attempts to cure his addiction by moving from Las Vegas to Albuquerque and working at an auto insurance company, only to find old temptations cropping up once again when he's sent out to investigate a dubious car accident just outside of Sin City.Actors
Romany Malco
(Virgil)
Steve Buscemi
(John)
Sarah Silverman
(Jill)
Peter Dinklage
(Mr. Townsend)
Tim Blake Nelson
(Ned)
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