''Sticks'' is a 2001 American action comedy film directed by

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and starring

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, and Keith Brunsmann.

Plot

''Sticks'' is an off-beat noir action comedy about a smuggler of Cuban cigars who gets involved, and ultimately falls in love, with a Cuban revolutionary Maria who's in the U.S. trading cigars for guns. The two join forces to sell a large (stolen) shipment of Castro's private label cigar, the famed "El Mariposa", and suddenly they find themselves enmeshed in the seedy underbelly of a mob-run cigar smuggling ring that's being monitored by the feds.

References

2001 action films 2001 films 2000s English-language films {{2000s-action-film-stub