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Gas City (1978)

What is Gas City? Decent!

Genre : Drama

Runtime : 0M

Director : Jeff Meyer

Synopsis

The story of a Northwestern Drifter who has already wasted 1 quarter of his life and gets by with a full tank of gas and $200. Lyle is a lonely Northwestern drifter tries to settle into a new environment and takes a job at a gas station and begins a relationship with a waitress (Gail Rosella). But his tribulations with roommates and leads to a foreboding sense of suffocation, and at any moment, he might just pick and go...

Actors

Joyce Burdick
Joyce Burdick
Barry Goren
Barry Goren
Karl Krogstad
Karl Krogstad
Jeff Meyer
Jeff Meyer
Gail Rosella
Gail Rosella

Crews

Jeff Meyer
Jeff Meyer
Director

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