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Leatherlip

1972-06-23 · 90 min · ★ 4.0

Adventure · Drama

A super-model begins to question her glitzy, frenetic lifestyle when she awakes after a all night party to find a strange man in her bed. She sees a surfer riding the waves below, follows him to his tented camp on the banks of a river. 'Leatherlip' earns a living making leather goods and roaming around on an extraordinary 'trike' with his worldly goods and surfboard strapped on an overhead rack. They fall in love and she abandons her previous life. Then inexplicably she disappears. Leatherlip sets off on a cross-country odyssey to find her, knowing only that her father lives on a boat on the West Coast...

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Directors
Stuart Pringle
Production companies
Assegai Film, Kinekor Films
Countries
South Africa
Status
Released

Top Cast

Evon de MeistreStienie
Richard LoringOne night stand guy
WhotsieInjured San (Bushman)
Bill BrewerStienie’s father
Tim HughesTim HughesLeatherlip
Tim HughesTim Hughes
Eben Nel
Tony JayTony Jay

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