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Dir.: Paul Chart

Born in London in 1961, Paul Chart graduated from the Great Yarmouth College of Art and Design and studied at Sheffield Polytechnic where he made his directorial debut on "Not a War Film" (1984). He began his professional career co-writing and co-producing "Hand in Hand" (1985) and directed "Trick or Treat" and "Foreign Bodies" (1987) as well as two documentaries, "Life Calls" and "Ken Kesey - Life and Times". AMERICAN PERFEKT is his first feature and stars his wife Amanda Plummer.

 

AMERICAN PERFEKT (CA)
1997 / 35 mm / Couleur / 100 min.
United States
P3.31.1, P5.01.7 

Dir.: Paul Chart; Script: Paul Chart; Phot.: William Wages; Ed.: Michael Ruscio; Mus.: Simon Boswell; Cast: Fairuza Balk, Robert Forster, Amanda Plummer, Paul Sorvino, David Thewlis, Geoffrey Lewis, Chris Sarandon, Joanna Gleason, Paul Henry, Belinda Belaski, Rutanya Alda; Prod. & Sales: Irvin Kershner, Nu Image, 9145 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90069 (États-Unis), tél.: (310) 246-0240, fax; (310) 246-1655;Dist.: France Film.

Criminal psychiatrist Jake Nyman is taking a much needed vacation from responsibility. An experimental road trip on which every decision will be made on the flip of a coin. Meanwhile, Sandra Thomas, a disenchanted Los Angeles professional, is en route to pick up her flunked-out sister Alice at a cheap motel before continuing on to visit their ailing mother in Utah. After being forced off the road in the California desert by a mysterious assailant, Sandra is picked up by Jake, whose coin-flipping amorality quickly excites her own desire to break a few rules. Or worse. Jake and Sandra's dark romance is soon driven by chance acts of crime and kindness, all governed by the toss of a coin. At least until Sandra mysteriously disappears and Jake unwittingly picks up her suspicious sister Alice.

             
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