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Twin Cities barge worker Billy (Chris Mulkey, First Blood) enlists his buddy Eddie (John Jenkins, Loose Ends) to accompany him on a night time road trip in the dead of winter to visit his out-of-town, pregnant girlfriend Patti Rocks (Karen Landry, The Personals). Billy hasn't told her that he's already married with two children and cannot afford another child or the disruption to his life. Billy and Eddie call life as they see it. No matter how raunchy, funny or sexist it may be. Billy is messed up enough for several thousand guys, while Eddie is understanding enough for two. And Patti--well, she straightens them both out. Twelve years after he teamed the characters of Billy and Eddie for his acclaimed debut feature Loose Ends, filmmaker David Burton Morris (Purple Haze) reunited them for this revealing and controversial comedic drama.
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Patti Rocks (1988)
86 min
It's Christmas time in the twin cities. Billy's working a lot of overtime, running barges on the Mississippi. He calls his friend Eddie, whom he hasn't seen in six months, and asks a favor: to drive with him to see his pregnant girlfriend, Patti, because Billy hasn't told her he's married and already has two children. The road trip of guy talk becomes a night of truths exchanged between men and women.