''The Pleasure Drivers'' is an 2006 American thriller

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film. It was directed by

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and written by Adam Haynes. It stars

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, Angelo Spizzirri, Steffany Huckaby,

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, Jill Bennett,

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and

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Premise

''The Pleasure Drivers'' lays out three separate interconnected stories involving a therapist, a

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, a

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, a kidnapper, and a brain-damaged ex-cult guru.

Release

The film, produced in 2005, was not subject to a theatrical release, but was instead released

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. It was released in Iceland in 2006 and in the United States, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands in 2007.

Cast

as Daphne Widesecker * Angelo Spizzirri as Tom Ethot * Steffany Huckaby as Casey Ethot *

as Dale *

as Bill Plummer *

as Faruza * Jill Bennett as Marcy *

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as Alexis Plummer * Sascha Knopf as Amity *

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as Marvin * Frank O'Neill as The Manager of "The Big Cock Inn" * Timothy Patrick Cavanaugh as Dick

References

External links

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