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The Locusts

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The Locusts
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R,2hrs 3min
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1997
Distributor:
MGM
Synopsis: A young drifter unexpectedly wanders into a maelstrom of bizarre sex and shameful secrets in this drama. With a mere seven dollars to his name, Clay Hewitt (Vince Vaughn) happens upon a ranch run by Delilah Potts (Kate Capshaw), a hard-as-nails widow who inherited a cattle empire from her late husband but needed no advice on how to keep it financially successful. While Delilah has become a success in business, she's had much less luck in love; to satisfy her ravenous sexual appetites, she often calls ... Full Synopsis
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Though writer/director John Patrick Kelly's star-packed debut isn't by any means a good movie, it's at least an incessantly watchable one, brimming with the kind of lurid, Southern-fried melodrama not seen since the heyday of Tennessee Williams. In fact, The Locusts' debt to Williams is downright slavish: there's an earnest drifter (Vince Vaughn); a lusty, almost-past-her-prime matriarch (Kate Capshaw); ... Full Review
Featured Cast
Delilah Ashford Potts
Clay Hewitt
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