Animals and the Tollkeeper (1997)
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Michael Di Jiacomo made his directorial debut with this allegory that opens with a 12-minute black-and-white prologue about three French filmmakers who encounter the tuba-playing Tollkeeper (Mickey Rooney) on a silent stretch between two ghost towns in the Utah desert. In NYC, an armed thief (John… More Michael Di Jiacomo made his directorial debut with this allegory that opens with a 12-minute black-and-white prologue about three French filmmakers who encounter the tuba-playing Tollkeeper (Mickey Rooney) on a silent stretch between two ghost towns in the Utah desert. In NYC, an armed thief (John Turturro) holds up despairing cabdriver Henry (Tim Roth), who tells him to go ahead and pull the trigger. With the thief gone, Henry's next passengers are the three Frenchmen seen earlier, and he takes them into New England where he's so spellbound by the beautiful Fatima (Mili Avital) that he takes a job with her irritating mother in order to maintain his pursuit of Fatima. Shown at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival. ~ Bhob Stewart, Rovi
- Directed By
- Michael Di Jiacomo
- Genres
- Science Fiction & Fantasy, Romance
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Dec 30, 1998 Wide
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Cast
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Tim Roth
as Henry
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Mili Avital
as Fatima
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Rod Steiger
as Fontina
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Mickey Rooney
as Tollkeeper
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John Turturro
as Tuxedo Man
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Jacques Herlin
as Laurent
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Lothaire Bluteau
as Young Laurent
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O-Lan Jones
as Essie
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Chris Fennel
as Sweet Potata
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Barbara Bain
as Mother
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Raoul Delfosse
as Felipe
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Francis Bouc
as Henri
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Gianin Loffler
as Young Henry
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Johnny Cinicola
as Angel
