TWO MEN, A DRIVER AND A PASSENGER, are car-pooling to work every day for ninety minutes through the barren suburbs of Los Angeles. The driver is a brilliant theorist and cultural analyst who's been driven close to insanity by the vicious cycles of daily life and their eternal repetition. He's against all kind of spontaneity and knows all his tautological essays by heart. He torments his passenger by ceaselessly describing them to him, without a trace of compassion. The passenger, on the other hand, is a completely normal young man, unsure of his place in the world, preoccupied with a failed love-affair. The film investigates a number of difficult topics and complicated theories while it tells the simple story about the driver's and the passenger's last trip together.
Acting
David Warner's terrifying erudition as the Driver.
Writing
Dense dialogue that dares you to keep up.
Director
Jefery Levy
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This is not the Ryan Gosling Drive—this obscure 1991 indie was nearly impossible to find for decades, circulating only as bootlegs among philosophy students.
The film deliberately traps viewers in the same temporal hell as its characters: the 87-minute runtime mirrors the daily commute duration.
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