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8 Heads in a Duffel Bag
1997
· Movie
· 95 min
F
MEANRANK
41/100
Every rating
7–64
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 7, highest is Kinopoisk on 64. Critics average 12, everyone else 51.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →Mafia hitman Tommy Spinelli is flying to San Diego with a bag that holds eight severed heads, which he's bringing to his superiors to prove that some troublesome rival mobsters are permanently out of the picture. When his bag gets accidentally switched at the airport, Tommy must track down his duffel bag and the 8 heads it contains.
Details
- Director
- Tom Schulman
- Writer
- Tom Schulman
- Released
- 18 April 1997
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 95 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $3.0M
- Box office
- $3.6M
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