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Flatbed Annie & Sweetie Pie: Lady Truckers

1979 · 100 min

A breezy, amiable road movie with a light comic touch and just enough danger to keep the wheels turning.

Directed by: Robert Greenwald
Genres: Drama, Action, Comedy
Starring: Annie Potts, Kim Darby, Harry Dean Stanton

Tagline: When 2 women, 18 wheels and 16 gears are rollin'...move over
Overview: This engaging made-for-television movie follows the adventures of Ginny "Sweetie Pie" LaRosa, who needs money after her trucker husband, Jack, is shot by hijackers. Fortunately, she finds a partner in Flatbed Annie, a freewheelin' driver. The women form an unlikely but profitable friendship while fending off the repo man who wants the truck and the criminals who are after the cocaine hidden in it.

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Directed by: Robert Greenwald
Genres: Drama, Action, Comedy
Starring: Annie Potts, Kim Darby, Harry Dean Stanton

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Tone
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: friendship
crime
survival
betrayal
Places: road trip
countryside
Era: contemporary
Audience: teen
Form: single location
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Scale	Value	0 to 10
Action	5
Horror	1
Humour	5
Realism	6
Romance	2
Tension	4
Darkness	4
Complexity	3
Emotional weight	4

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Genres: drama, action, comedy, tv movie
Directed by: Robert Greenwald
Written by: Robie Robinson
Starring: Annie Potts, Kim Darby, Harry Dean Stanton, Arthur Godfrey, Fred Willard, Billy Carter, Rory Calhoun, Avery Schreiber
Cinematography: William B. Jurgensen
Runtime: 100 min
Country: United States of America, United Kingdom
Languages: English

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