Ricky Fitts, played by Wes Bentley, is a troubled soul who pines for Jane and is befriended by her increasingly unstable father, Lester.

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With Mena Suvari as a teen vamp who is terrified of being ordinary, and Wes Bentley as a young drug dealer who uses his video camera to discover the hidden connections among things.

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But sadly there were no girls with dresses on-fire, no waitresses with Kabuki makeup, no men with the strange kind of facial hair Wes Bentley as Seneca, the game master, sports in the movie.

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