Illeana Douglas

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Right now m- we're dealing with, uh, a couple book releases with Ileana Douglas and her book Jungle Red that just came out two weeks ago and is now number one on Amazon comedy.

Mm.

Oh, I'm actually reading w- I, I'm actually reading another book of hers.

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Actress, filmmaker, and writer Illeana Douglas.

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Illeana Douglas's childhood was heavily influenced by movies, but not in the way one might think.

In 1969, Illeana's father was inspired by the film Easy Rider and quit his job to start a hippie commune in their backyard.

The cast is very good.

Ileana Douglas, she plays Janice Moreto.

I think she's great in this film, too.

It's the kind of movie that I would say you just can't make anymore, meaning there's absolutely no reason that a film like this will be made and released into a theater in a post-COVID world.

Okay, next.

Ileana Douglas.

Mm-mm.

Brad Renfro.

There's...

We have, like, Ileana Douglas, Suzanne Krall, John Carroll Lynch shows up at one point.

Well, Ileana

Douglas and John Carroll Lynch are the

I am taking Sam.

Or leaves a note explaining that.

Something that rounds the edges off of what is just crazy fucking behavior that will obviously just trigger the situation even worse, which sends him to Ileana Douglas.

God bless Ileana Douglas, who is always lovely to see, but has literally nothing to do in this movie.