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Joanie 4 Jackie

Transeltown

19m

Directed by Myra Paci • 1992 • United States
Starring Myra Paci, Carter Burwell, Dina Emerson

Dante transported to Times Square: a morbid and tender love story begins when a lonely girl drags home the naked body of a comatose, genital-less blonde woman.

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