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5. People Who Live in Brass Hearses

A hot-tempered convict with a butter addiction tries to get revenge, with the help of his mentally challenged brother, on the ice cream trucker who was responsible for his arrest, unaware the driver also has a dark secret too.

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Billy DeLuca ( Bill Paxton ), a thief with an addiction to butter and butter products, is released from prison after serving a two-year sentence for embezzlement. With the help of his mentally challenged brother Virgil ( Brad Dourif ), Billy sets out to get revenge on Earl Byrd ( Michael Lerner ), the jolly ice cream man who had reported him to the police, by robbing the ice cream warehouse where he works. Unfortunately, the dim-witted Virgil manages to screw up every step of Billy's plan along the way.

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