The Sasquatch Gang

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The Sasquatch Gang
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Directed by	Tim Skousen
Produced by	Kevin Spacey
Written by	Tim Skousen
Starring	Jeremy Sumpter Justin Long Carl Weathers Rob Pinkston Joey Kern Addie Land Hubbel Palmer
Music by	John Swihart
Cinematography	Munn Powell
Editing by	Jeremy Coon
Distributed by	Sony BMG Music Entertainment
Release date(s)	November 30, 2007
Country
Language	English
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The Sasquatch Gang is a 2005 comedy film written and directed by Tim Skousen, the first assistant director on Napoleon Dynamite. The film was shot in Oregon in locations such as the forests of rural Clackamas County and a dirt track speedway in Banks.

The six-week shoot was completed in the summer of 2005. The film premiered in January 2006 at the Slamdance Film Festival. It was also shown at the HBO US Comedy Arts Festival and the Waterfront Film Festival. The film opened in limited release in the United States on November 30, 2007.^[1] The film is currently scheduled for a March 18, 2008 DVD release.^[2]

The film was rated PG-13 by the MPAA for crude humor and language.

Contents 1 Plot 2 Cast 3 Trivia 4 References 5 External links

[edit] Plot

[edit] Cast

• Jeremy Sumpter as Gavin Gore
• Justin Long as Zerk Wilder
• Addie Land as Sophie Suchowski
• Carl Weathers as Dr. Artimus Snodgrass
• Rob Pinkston as Maynard Keyes
• Joey Kern as Shirts
• Don Burns as Dentist
• Hubbel Palmer as Hobie Plumber
• Michael Mitchell as Shane Bagwell
• Veanne Cox as Lenora Gore
• Ray Santiago as Crone
• Stephen Tobolowsky as Ernie Dalrymple
• Jon Gries as Officer Ed Chillcut
• Matthew Tillwick as Extras

[edit] Trivia

• The original title of this film, The Sasquatch Dumpling Gang, is a reference to the title of the Disney movie The Apple Dumpling Gang
• The name "Maynard Keynes" may be a nod to economist John Maynard Keynes, the father of modern Macroeconomic theory.
• Jeremy Sumpter receives an actual wedgie in this movie.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Official site
• The Sasquatch Dumpling Gang at the Internet Movie Database
• The Sasquatch Gang at Rotten Tomatoes
• The Sasquatch Gang at Metacritic
• The Sasquatch Gang at Allmovie
• killermovies.com
• The Movie Insider