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Desperate Lives (1982) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1982 · 96 mins · English
- Directed by
- Robert Michael Lewis
- Starring
- Sam Bottoms, Art Hindle, Michael Lang, Helen Hunt, Diane Ladd, Diana Scarwid
Who’s killing young kids with drugs and crime? A brother and sister get caught up in the drug scene in their local high school, with tragic results.
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