At a desert diner, the lives of five strangers become linked through a single twenty-dollar bill. Shot for $20,000 and starring Philip Baker Hall, the short premiered at Sundance and later inspired Anderson’s debut feature Hard Eight (1996).
Kirk Baltz
Douglas Walker
Philip Baker Hall
Sydney
Scott Coffey
Kim Gillingham
Miguel Ferrer
Bill
Michael Harris
Steve
Jennifer Kaplan
Bonnie Fidelman
At a desert diner, the lives of five strangers become linked through a single twenty-dollar bill. Shot for $20,000 and starring Philip Baker Hall, the short premiered at Sundance and later inspired Anderson’s debut feature Hard Eight (1996).
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A spectacular heist starts to unravel as the crooks take it on the lam.
After two British Secret Intelligence Service agents are murdered at the hands of a cryptic neo-Nazi group known as Phoenix, the suave agent Quiller is sent to Berlin to investigate.
Former war-time Army buddies now students in college decide to rip off a Reno casino.
After being framed for a policeman's murder, a criminal escapes prison and sets out for revenge.
An ex-fireman with PTSD goes on the run when accused of a crime he doesn't even remember committing, leading him down a rabbit hole of conspiracy to the highest degree.
A woman fights to convince the police that she witnessed a murder while looking out her bedroom window.
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