Synopsis
Three girls discover that two men are willing to do anything to impress Mother and what impresses Mother is watching her sons commit acts of rape and murder. Now these women are prisoners and lowered to pawns in the game of checkers between two dim wits and their Maniac Mommy and the question becomes, can any of them escape, alive?
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Director & Writers
Charles Kaufman
Director
Charles Kaufman
Screenplay
Warren Leight
Screenplay
Cast
Deborah Luce
Jackie
Tiana Pierce
Trina
Michael McCleery
Addley
Beatrice Pons
Mother
Peter Fox
The 'Dobber'
Robert Collins
Ernie
Sondra Fortunato
Gary Pollard
Ike
Nancy Hendrickson
Abbey
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