American Perfekt is a 1997 road movie

Road movie

A road movie is a film genre in which the main character or characters leave home to travel from place to place. They usually leave home to escape their current lives.-History:...

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Drama

Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance. The term comes from a Greek word meaning "action" , which is derived from "to do","to act" . The enactment of drama in theatre, performed by actors on a stage before an audience, presupposes collaborative modes of production and a...

 film written and directed by Paul Chart

Paul Chart

Paul Chart is an English film director, screenwriter and producer. His film American Perfekt was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival.-Filmography:* Not a War Film...

, produced by Irvin Kershner

Irvin Kershner

Irvin Kershner was an American film director and occasional actor, best known for directing quirky, independent films early in his career, and then Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back. -Background:...

. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard

Un Certain Regard

Un Certain Regard is a section of the Cannes Film Festival's Official Selection. It is run at the Salle Debussy, parallel to the competition for the Palme d'Or.This section was introduced in 1978 by Gilles Jacob...

 section at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival

1997 Cannes Film Festival

-Jury:*Isabelle Adjani *Gong Li *Mira Sorvino *Paul Auster *Tim Burton *Luc Bondy *Patrick Dupond *Mike Leigh *Nanni Moretti *Michael Ondaatje -Feature film competition:...

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Plot

Jake Nyman decides to take a professional vacation where all decisions will be made by the flip of a coin. He meets up with disenchanted Sandra Thomas, who becomes excited by the potential of having the coin make all the decisions. See, Flipism

Flipism

Flipism, sometimes written as "Flippism," is a pseudophilosophy under which all decisions are made by flipping a coin. It originally appeared in the Disney comic "Flip Decision" by Carl Barks, published in 1953...

. Things seem okay, until Sandra vanishes and Alice becomes involved in Jake's life.

Main cast

• Fairuza Balk
  Fairuza Balk
  Fairuza Alejandra Balk is an American film actress. She made her theatrical film debut as Dorothy Gale in Disney's Return to Oz...
  
  , as Alice Thomas
• Robert Forster
  Robert Forster
  Robert Forster is an American actor, best known for his roles as John Cassellis in Haskell Wexler's Medium Cool, and as Max Cherry in Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown, the latter of which gained him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.- Early life :Forster was born Robert Wallace...
  
  , as Jake Nyman
• Amanda Plummer, as Sandra Thomas
• Paul Sorvino
  Paul Sorvino
  Paul Anthony Sorvino is an American actor. He often portrays authority figures on both sides of the law, and is possibly best known for his roles as Paulie Cicero, a portrayal of Paul Vario in the film Goodfellas and Sgt. Phil Cerreta on the police procedural and legal drama television series Law...
  
  , as Sheriff Frank Noonan
• David Thewlis
  David Thewlis
  David Thewlis is an English actor of stage and screen. His most commercially successful role to date has been that of Remus Lupin, in the Harry Potter film series...
  
  , as Santini
• Chris Sarandon
  Chris Sarandon
  Chris Sarandon is an American actor who was married to actress Susan Sarandon between 1968 and 1979. He is best known for playing Prince Humperdinck in the film The Princess Bride, the vampire Jerry Dandridge in Fright Night and Detective Mike Norris in the first entry of the Child's Play series,...
  
  , as Deputy Sammy
• Geoffrey Lewis, as Willy
• Jay Patterson, as Bertnie
• Judson Mills
  Judson Mills
  Judson Mills is an American actor. His nickname is J The Kid. He is perhaps best known for the role as Francis Gage on Walker, Texas Ranger from 1999 to 2001. On the show, he had a partner named Sydney Cooke ; each had a crush on the other, but they never showed their love on the show...
  
  , as Junior
• Rutanya Alda
  Rutanya Alda
  -Life:Rutanya Alda was born as Rutanya Alda Skrastiņa in Riga, Latvia, the daughter of Vera , a businesswoman, and Jānis Skrastiņš, a poet...
  
  , as Gloria