Movie: Just Like America

Top 7 Billed Cast

Andor Lukáts
Andor Lukáts

Frigyes Tölgyesi

Trula Hoosier
Trula Hoosier

Jude

Stafford Ashani
Stafford Ashani

David

Erika Bodnár
Erika Bodnár

Mrs. Tölgyesi

Ádám Szirtes
Ádám Szirtes

Tölgyesi's father-in-law

György Cserhalmi
György Cserhalmi

Tölgyesi's brother-in-law

Steven Marcus
Steven Marcus

Joe Horatio

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    Frigyes, shortly after immigrating to New York City from Hungary, leaves his family for the pleasures and gratifications of being a street bum. But as time goes by, the appeal of this lifestyle wanes. A series of adventures with other drifters reaches a dramatic conclusion when some thugs murder one of them. This startling event forces Frigyes to come to terms with his current situation and decide whether to return to the family he abandoned.

  • Release Date

    1988-01-11

  • Average

    8

  • Rating:

    4.0 starts
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    EnglishMagyar
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