Animals (And The Tollkeeper)

Plot

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

Cast

• Tim Roth - Henry
• Mili Avital - Fatima
• Rod Steiger - Fontina
• Mickey Rooney - Tollkeeper
• John Turturro - Tuxedo Man

Jacques Herlin - Laurent; Lothaire Bluteau - Young Laurent; O-Lan Jones - Essie; Chris Fennel - Sweet Potata; Barbara Bain - Mother; Raoul Delfosse - Felipe; Francis Bouc - Henri; Gianin Loffler - Young Henry; Johnny Cinicola - Angel

Credit

Susan B. Landau - Casting, Juliette Menager - Casting, Lisa Mae Fincannon - Casting, Pamela Smith - Costume Designer, Michael DiJiacomo - Director, David Leonard - Editor, Richard Dooley - Line Producer, Stuart Levy - Composer (Music Score), Kalina Ivanov - Production Designer, Alik Sakharov - Cinematographer, Gabrielle Tana - Producer, Michael Turoff - Special Effects, Stuart Levy - Sound/Sound Designer, Cal Johnson - Stunts Coordinator, Michael DiJiacomo - Screenwriter

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