Jackpot is a very small independent musical, road trip, drama movie about becoming a huge and popular karaoke singer in small cities but bigger states. Abandoning his beautiful wife bobbi daryl hannah and their young baby, he sets off with his manager lester les irving garrett morris on a ninemonth. Released july 27th, 2001, jackpot stars jon gries, garrett morris, daryl hannah, moel dewes the r movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 32 min, and received a score of 49 out of 100 on metacritic. The sixth installment in the swindle series, in which the man with the plan gets a new rival. Three repo guys accidentally steal a car with a girl and money in the trunk. This one feels more like when the pianist noodles on the keyboard before breaking into the melody. Sunny holiday jon gries has no doubt hes the next george jones. Jonathan francis gries born june 17, 1957 is an american actor, writer, and director. Jackpot by michael polish jon gries, garrett morris. Set 100 miles south of the setting of the polish brothers first feature, twin falls idaho, jackpot tells the story of sunny holiday jon gries, a downonhisluck karaoke dweller who has hopes of. Jackpot is their sophmoric effort, and it is just visually stunning. He is driven to get them, and pursued by a group of bullies as he tries to escape with his treasure.
Jon gries men in black and saturday night lives garrett morris star in this bizarre yet compelling little road movie. Jackpot is the first released film to be shot with the 24p hdtv camera. This movie has a huge cast like jon gries who plays the main character and main lead of the film playing the karaoke singer sunny holliday. He is an actor, known for napoleon dynamite 2004, men in black 1997 and the rundown 2003. Sunny holiday, an aspiring singing star, abandons his wife and young baby to set off on a ninemonth tour of bleak western towns. Jackpot s sunny holiday jon gries is one such dreamer, whose dream it is to make it big as a singer. Gries has played a werewolf on several occasions, such as fright night part 2 and the monster squad. Jon gries, daryl hannah, garrett morris, mark polish, mac davis, michael polish, llc jackpot productions. And theyve struck another jackpot with this odd couple. The trailer for jackpot is live turn your sound on were honored to unveil the trailer for this endearing film. A somewhat aimless movie thats too artsy for its own good. In the historical western film september dawn, he played executed murderer john d. Sonny jon gries and his feisty manager, lester the hilarious garrett morris, are two middleaged losers scamming their way to l. The film released on december 20 with 1150 screens release in india.
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But little did they know it was owned by two insane hitmen. Jon gries, garrett morris, adam baldwin and patrick bauchau directed by. In search of stardom he leaves his wife daryl hannah and baby steals her pink chrysler and embarks on. His unorthodox means to that end is to hit the road and compete in a string of karaoke contests, which he and his manager les garrett morris hope will bring him exposure and much needed prize money to keep the show on the road and the dream. Jon gries was born on june 17, 1957 in glendale, california, usa as jonathan francis gries. Gries, jon 1957 jon francis, johnathan gries, jonathan gries, jonathon gries personalborn june 17 some sources cite june 16, 1957, in glendale, ca. The road movie jackpot comes to dvd from columbia tristar. Sunny holiday is a karaoke singer with delusions of grandeur. Apart from his work on the popular medium of tv and movies, jon gries has also appeared in a video game, hitman. Facebook is showing information to help you better understand the purpose of a page. Sunny holiday jon gries is convinced his road to singing. In 1919, electrician chuck hadley jack oakie befriends former pilot rix martin john payne, and the men become interested in developing radio as an entertainment tool.
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