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A longtime character actor with the unique ability to alternate between meek and menacing at the drop of a hat, jon gries can play a computer wiz real genius, the pretender or a south american. Sunny holiday jon gries abandons his wife bobbi daryl hannah and their child to go in delusional pursuit of a singing career. 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. Jul 05, 2018 sanam chaudhry and noor hassan vs sajal aly and ahad raza mir whos look most beautiful couple duration. Jonathan francis gries born june 17, 1957 is an american actor, writer, and director. 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. Jackpot is the refreshingly original, stylish followup film from directorswriters mark and michael polish twin falls idaho starring jon gries men in black and.
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