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| 3 | ''Cat Chaser'' is a 1989 crime thriller film [[TheFilmOfTheBook based on]] the novel of the same name by Creator/ElmoreLeonard, directed by Creator/AbelFerrara and starring Creator/PeterWeller, Creator/KellyMcGillis, Creator/CharlesDurning, Creator/FredericForrest, and Creator/TomasMilian. |
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| 5 | George Moran (Weller) is a former American paratrooper and veteran of the Dominican Republic intervention who now runs a small beachfront motel in Miami. While searching for a Dominican woman who saved his life in 1965 (and gave him the nickname "Cat Chaser"), he begins a relationship with Mary [=DeBoya=] ([=McGillis=]), the wealthy, unhappy wife of a sadistic former Dominican general (Milian). Moran gets involved in a plot to rip off the general, and must elude a number of double-crosses as he and Mary attempt to gain her freedom plus the general's money. |
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| 8 | !!This film features examples of: |
| 9 | * TheGeneralissimo: Mary's husband acts and looks like one down to a T, being deposed general from the Dominican Republic. |
| 10 | * SympatheticAdulterer: Mary's husband is too much of a jerk for anyone to care about her cheating on him. |
| 11 | * TrophyWife: Mary is the trophy wife of a ruthless Dominican general. |
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