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Red-Blooded American Girl II

1997 film directed by David Blyth

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ104872326 ↗
Source-derived summary

Red-Blooded American Girl II (also known as Hot Blooded, Red Blooded 2, and Hit & Run) is a 1997 Canadian thriller film by New Zealand-born director David Blyth. It is billed as a sequel to Blyth's 1990 film Red Blooded American Girl, despite featuring a different cast and premise.

Plot

College student Trent Colbert is making a cross country trip to visit his parents when he encounters a prostitute named Miya Falk. He gets caught up in her world of crime, and the two are eventually forced to go on the run from the police. Through these rigorous endeavors the two fall in love with each other.

Cast

Kari Wuhrer as Miya Falk

Kristoffer Ryan Winters as Trent Colbert

Burt Young as Roy Falk

David Keith as Mr. Colbert

Elaine Martyn as Mrs. Colbert

Nicholas Pasco as State Trooper Vukelich

Roland Rothchild as State Trooper Whitman

Philip Riccio as Jimmy

Art MacDonald as Buster

Joanne Takahashi as Vinnie

Clinton Walker as Pez

Production

Filming occurred in Ontario, Canada. Kari Wuhrer is listed as Kari Salin in the credits.

Release

It was first released direct-to-video in Europe and Australia during 1997.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Red-Blooded American Girl II” is 1997 film directed by David Blyth. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Red-Blooded, American and Girl, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1997, 1990—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1997. For this dossier, Red-Blooded, American and Girl is the immediate research focus.
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Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q104872326. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1997 and 1990.

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This entry incorporates text from “Red-Blooded American Girl II” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.