Formosa is a 2005 film

2005 in film

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 comedy directed by Noah Kadner

Noah Kadner

Noah Kadner, is a trainer and post-production consultant based out of Hollywood. He co-founded Call Box, a training company for independent filmmakers. He is also a contributing writer for American Cinematographer magazine....

 and written by Jamieson Stern. It won the Jury Award at the 2005 Garden State Film Festival

Garden State Film Festival

The Garden State Film Festival is a film festival in the United States held in Asbury Park, New Jersey which showcases over 100 films annually over three days in March or April....

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Plot summary

Albuquerque, New Mexico

Albuquerque, New Mexico

Albuquerque is the largest city in the state of New Mexico, United States. It is the county seat of Bernalillo County and is situated in the central part of the state, straddling the Rio Grande. The city population was 545,852 as of the 2010 Census and ranks as the 32nd-largest city in the U.S. As...

, 1951. Sid Silver (Steven Gilborn

Steven Gilborn

Steven Neil Gilborn was an American television and film actor.Gilborn was born in New Rochelle, New York. He attended Swarthmore College, where he was awarded a bachelor's degree in English and earned a Ph.D...

) has a problem: his social guidance films aren't working anymore. The teens of the '50s are going crazy buck wild and Sid can no longer reach them. Clay Crawford (Jamieson Stern) also has a problem. He's on the run from the law and trying to make it to California to find a man who may be his father. A grizzled bounty hunter

Bounty hunter

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 named Lucky (Geoffrey Lewis) is hot on Clay's trail. Sid and Clay cross paths in the hot desert winds of New Mexico. Sid's daughter Anne-Marie (Jessica Kiper) begins to fall for Clay to the dismay of her fiancé, Ted (Clayton Rohner

Clayton Rohner

Clayton Rohner is an American actor. He is known for his role as Rick Morehouse in the 1985 comedy movie Just One of the Guys. He also starred in the 1986 film Modern Girls as Clifford and Bruno X. He is a main character in the 1994 film Caroline at Midnight. Other credits include the films April...

) who also bankrolls Sid's films. The fates of Formosa Studios and perhaps New Mexico

New Mexico

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 itself hang in the balance.

Cast

• Jamieson Stern
• Jessica Kiper
  Jessica Kiper
  Jessica Michele Kiper is an American actress and singer. Kiper was also a runner-up contestant on Survivor: Gabon where she placed third. She was more commonly known to the viewing audience during her run on Survivor as Sugar. She returned to Survivor to compete on the show's 20th season:...
  
  
• Steven Gilborn
  Steven Gilborn
  Steven Neil Gilborn was an American television and film actor.Gilborn was born in New Rochelle, New York. He attended Swarthmore College, where he was awarded a bachelor's degree in English and earned a Ph.D...
  
  
• Clayton Rohner
  Clayton Rohner
  Clayton Rohner is an American actor. He is known for his role as Rick Morehouse in the 1985 comedy movie Just One of the Guys. He also starred in the 1986 film Modern Girls as Clifford and Bruno X. He is a main character in the 1994 film Caroline at Midnight. Other credits include the films April...
  
  
• Cameron Bender
• Richard Keith
  Richard Keith (actor)
  Richard Keith is an American actor known for his roles as Intern Mitch on the American television series Grey's Anatomy and Roger on the American television series Quintuplets.- Biography :...
  
  
• Saginaw Grant
  Saginaw Grant
  Saginaw Grant is an American Indian actor, dancer, and activist of Sac and Fox and Otoe-Missouria heritage.Born to Austin and Sarah Grant at Pawnee Indian Hospital and raised on a farm in Cushing, Oklahoma. Graduate of Bacon Indian College. Served in the United States Marine Corps...
  
  
• Erik Holland
• Tara Nulty