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Kill the Moonlight

Starring: Richmond Arquette, Jaime Colindrez, John Hanft, Steve Hanft, Rossie Harris

Directed by: Steve Hanft

RS: 3of 4 Stars

2006

Director Steven Hanft's totally awesome early-Nineties stock-car slacker feature -- the dialogue was sampled by Beck for his breakthrough classic "Loser" -- is the ultimate cinematic sublimation of the Cali-driver dream state. Chance (Thomas Hendrix) gets sick cleaning spills at the textile plant and dreams of racing. As Chance's dad tells him, "Fake it until you make it."

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