Characters & Themes
555 (1988) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1988 · 90 mins · English
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- Starring
- Greg Neilson, Mara Lynn Bastian, B.K. Smith, Greg Kerouac, Charles Fuller, Bob Grabill
Caution: may damage brain cells. A series of teenage murders by a hippie‑dressed maniac leads a detective to review old files. He finds a pattern: every five years in May, for five days, killings recur, described with a hippie look. As he pursues the killer, he grows suspicious of his superior, a Vietnam veteran haunted by war memories.
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