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The Ballad of Pony Boy
An out-of-work guitar player is forced by his girlfriend to get a job as a "pony photographer", taking pictures of kids and ponies on the mean streets of East L.A. Along the way, he gets beat up, smoked out, flirts with a sexy senorita, loses his pony, and kicks out the jams in this documentary-style, very musical look at life in modern day Los Angeles.
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An out-of-work guitar player is forced by his girlfriend to get a job as a "pony photographer", taking pictures of kids and ponies on the mean streets of East L.A. Along the way, he gets beat up, smoked out, flirts with a sexy senorita, loses his pony, and kicks out the jams in this documentary-style, very musical look at life in modern day Los Angeles.
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