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Ask the Dust Movie Story. Based on John Fante's novel about a Mexican waitress who hopes to rise above her station by marrying a young and wealthy American. Things become complicated when she meets a poor first-generation Italian hoping to land a writing career and an American girl. Fante's was an autobiographical story about the writer's early struggles while living in a Bunker Hill boarding house, first Published in 1939. Due to the inevitable forces of technology and modernization, Ask the Dust was shot in South Africa, where a large set of Downtown L.A. circa 1933, was built from scratch, assisted with workable CGI effects. Starring: Colin Farrell, Salma Hayek, Donald Sutherland, Charlie Hunnam and Eileen Atkins. |