

The Neon Ceiling
1971-02-08 · 100 min · ★ 7.8
A housewife and her teenage daughter, fleeing their boring lives, stop in a diner in the California desert. She runs up against the diner's owner, a gruff, beer-drinking artist whose life's work is the neon sculptures he collects and attaches to the ceiling.
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- Directors
- Frank Pierson
- Production companies
- Universal Television
- Countries
- United States of America
- Status
- Released
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Gig YoungJones
Lee GrantCarrie Miller
Denise NickersonPaula Miller
Herb EdelmanHarry
William SmithersDoctor Miller
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