Chasing Butterflies

Chasing Butterflies

2009 · 96 min · ★ 5.0 · Comedy

Mother stands in for a runaway bride and marries the groom by proxy, then both set out to convince her daughter to reconsider. Later they mistake the missing bride and her companion for two escaped convicts and pursue them with a sex obsessed teenage boy in tow. All paths cross at a remote motel run by a jilted church deacon.

Directed by Rod Bingaman · Written by Rod Bingaman

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