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Mar 24, 2006 · Ask the Dust: Directed by Robert Towne. With Colin Farrell, Salma Hayek, Donald Sutherland, Eileen Atkins. Mexican beauty Camilla Lopez (Salma Hayek) hopes to rise above her station by marrying a wealthy American.
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- Drama, Romance
- Robert Towne
- 2006-03-24
Ask the Dust is the most popular novel of American author John Fante, first published in 1939 and set during the Great Depression era in Los Angeles. It is one of a series of novels featuring the character Arturo Bandini as Fante's alter ego, a young Italian-American from Colorado struggling to make it as a writer in Los Angeles.
- John Fante
- 1939
- 1939
- Stackpole Sons
Ask the Dust is a 2006 romantic drama film based on the 1939 book Ask the Dust by John Fante. The film was written and directed by Robert Towne. Tom Cruise (with Paula Wagner and Cruise/Wagner Productions) served as one of the film's producers.
- $2.5 million
- March 17, 2006
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Mar 16, 2006 · Ask the Dust is a novel by John Fante, a writer of the generation just before Charles Bukowski, who saw to it that the book was reissued by his publisher, the Black Sparrow Press. It shares Bukowski's view of women who are attracted to a courtship consisting largely of hostility.
Mar 10, 2006 · Arturo Bandini (Colin Farrell) is a writer who moves from Colorado to Los Angeles with aspirations of completing a great novel. There he meets bold Mexican waitress Camilla...
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Mexican beauty Camilla Lopez (Salma Hayek) hopes to rise above her station by marrying a wealthy American. That is complicated by meeting Arturo Bandini (Colin Farrell), a first-generation Italian hoping to land a writing career and a blue-eyed blonde on his arm. In early-1930s Los Angeles, California in the early 1930s, racism, poverty, and ...
Ask the Dust. Moody noir drama about a brooding Italian-American writer (Colin Farrell) and his tempestuous mixed-race romance with a Mexican-American waitress (Salma Hayek). 245 IMDb 5.7 1 h 56 min 2006. R. Drama · Romance · Cerebral · Emotional. This video is currently unavailable.
