An academic obsessed with roadside attractions and his tv-star daughter stop at a small desert town to see the world's largest ice cream cone, where, because of an accident that spilled an unknown substance all over the highway, they are forced to spend a few days with the towns eccentric residents.
Acting
Ricci and Affleck's chaotic desert rat energy
Production
The gloriously fake 'world's largest ice cream cone'
Writing
Quirky townie dialogue that actually lands
Director
Morgan J. Freeman
Kate Hudson
Skye Davidson
Brendan Sexton III
Blue Baxter
John Heard
Prof. Lance Davidson
Christina Ricci
Ely Jackson
Casey Affleck
Pete Kepler
Sara Gilbert
Sandy
Ethan Suplee
Cale
Peter Sarsgaard
Billy Baxter
Lucinda Jenney
Caroline Baxter
Michael Ironside
Agent Frank Bellows
Daniel von Bargen
Sheriff Jackson
Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor
Agent Summers
Isidra Vega
Haley Gordon
Rene Rivera
Dr. Gordon
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Morgan J. Freeman's directorial debut, shot in just 24 days on a shoestring budget in California's Mojave Desert.
The film captures a specific late-90s indie moment when studios briefly bankrolled quirky character studies before the blockbuster takeover.
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