Sleep Is for Sissies

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Sleep Is for Sissies

1980

0h 36m

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Overview

A broke Brit tries to pick-up girls, earn some money and navigate Los Angeles.

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9 members

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Bob Rosen

Smack Hasty

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Christine Burton

Krsna

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Bill Wood

Ozzie Mamba

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Alex Cox

Roy Rawlings (as I. Nukem)

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Apache Rodrigues

Murphy

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R.J. Benjamin

Alvarado

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Shaun Madigian

Brown

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Greg Alarcon

Albacete

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Robert Wipeout

"Beer"

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