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19 March 1999 (USA)
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Melba is a Californian trailer-park girl who is said to look for three kings by a phone psychic, and when she meets three guys - Trent...
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Truck Driver
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Road
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Trailer Trash
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Strip Club
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Lesbian
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Inside this "dog" is a good movie trying to get out.
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Park Overall | ... | Melba May | |
| Veronica Cartwright | ... | Dottie Delgato | |
| Don Harvey | ... | Flint | |
| Jamie Kennedy | ... | Trent | |
| Steven Petrarca | ... | Joel | |
| Freddie Prinze Jr. | ... | Brad | |
| Sandy Martin | ... | Ed | |
| Grace Zabriskie | ... | Sherri | |
| Sheila Tousey | ... | Hurricane | |
| Gloria LeRoy | ... | Maxine | |
| Glenn Shadix | ... | Announcer | |
| Jack Wallace | ... | Jesse | |
| Frances Bay | ... | Raspy | |
| Bunny Summers | ... | Eager Old Lady | |
| Octavia Spencer | ... | Wanda |
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Rated R for sexual content and language.
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96 min | USA:90 min (video version)
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Continuity: Melba's earrings disappear and reappear between shots at the end of the movie.
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Cretin
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"Sparkler" is a shoe string indie shot in Vegas which throws a bunch of characters from a low life trucker and his wife to a three young broke guys from L.A. to a stripper to a drag queen, etc. into the plot and then struggles for coherence. Buried in this mess of nonsense is a somewhat sentimental story trying to get out. Unfortunately, the real story, which Overall (the title character) almost brings to life, is buried so deep in a lame production that's for most it will never be realized. It took a lot of patience to sit through this film and in the final analysis the liabilities outweighed the assets.