In the desert outside Cactus Gulch, Arizona, Buzzard and Betty Jean Wall live in a trailer decorated in Hawaiian themes. Betty's trying to get pregnant. Buzz wants to market "Cammo," a sun ...
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Stephen Baldwin | ... | Buzzard Wall | |
| Emily Lloyd | ... | Betty Wall | |
| Chris Penn | ... | Turk Dickson | |
| Musetta Vander | ... | Maya Gundinger | |
| Pruitt Taylor Vince | ... | Bob | |
| Edie McClurg | ... | Dolly | |
| Robert Madrid | ... | Juan | |
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James Staszkiel | ... | Trucker (as James Staskel) |
| Carel Struycken | ... | Clyde | |
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Ray Bumatai | ... | King |
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Tina Naughton | ... | News Reporter |
| Debra Christofferson | ... | Kim Jones | |
| Billy Campbell | ... | Marvin (as Bill Campbell) | |
| Molly McClure | ... | Grandmother | |
| Deep Roy | ... | Bus Driver | |
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In the desert outside Cactus Gulch, Arizona, Buzzard and Betty Jean Wall live in a trailer decorated in Hawaiian themes. Betty's trying to get pregnant. Buzz wants to market "Cammo," a sun block lotion that looks like camouflage; but financing is tough to find and Betty thinks he should get a real job. Buzz's half-brother Turkey, a murderous psychopath, escapes from jail, comes to the trailer, ties up Buzz, kidnaps Betty, steals $10,000 they've just won from Publisher's Clearing Hut's Lucky Loser drawing, and heads for Mexico. Buzz is untied by Maya, an ex-girlfriend who's now a TV reporter in search of a story. They pick up Turk's trail and set out to rescue Betty. Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>
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arizona desert | arizona | murder | neo screwball comedy | ex girlfriend |Taglines:
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1 December 1995 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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The beginning of the 90s brought many "quirky" and "off-beat" independent films, a particular sub-genre of which is the semi-spiritual desert crime movie. Others of note are "Wild at Heart", "From Dusk Til Dawn", and to a certain extent "Natural Born Killers". Good films like those spawned junk like "Highway 666", "Destiny Turns on the Radio" and this ineptly surreal anti-masterpiece "Under The Hula Moon". It's a comedy that aims for a certain emotional tone, attains it, but keeps going to the point of irritation. While the pursuit across the spirit-world of the desert and the casting of Chris Penn are good ideas, the film is not dirty enough or hard enough to be a good crime movie, and isn't focused enough on laughs to really be a comedy. I won't blow the ending, but let's just say it's bad. The film is basically a bad side effect of genre-cancer. This is the dregs of indie-mania.