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Flatbed Annie & Sweetie Pie: Lady Truckers (1979)

Directed by Robert Greenwald

Overview

This engaging made-for-television movie follows the adventures of Ginny “Sweetie Pie” LaRosa (Kim Darby), who needs money after her trucker husband, Jack (Fred Willard), is shot by hijackers. Fortunately, she finds a partner in Flatbed Annie (Annie Potts), a freewheelin’ driver. The women form an unlikely but profitable friendship while fending off the repo man who wants the truck and the criminals who are after the cocaine hidden in it.

Rated PG | Length 100 minutes

Actors

Annie Potts | Kim Darby | Harry Dean Stanton | Arthur Godfrey | Fred Willard | Billy Carter | Rory Calhoun | Avery Schreiber | Rance Howard | Julie Mannix | Don Pike | Bob Herron | Lorna Thayer | Ann Ryerson | Joe Estevez | Lawrence Bame | Judy Sudol | Victor Eschbach | Edward Cross | David Clover