A look at the mystique of road movies, combining interviews, film clips, music, photography, literature and a narrative storyline featuring Paul Rudd and Tom McCarthy.
Direction
Berman and Pulcini blur documentary and fiction with gleeful abandon.
Editing
Clip montages that'll triple your watchlist in 84 minutes.
Production
Rare interviews with Karen Black, Bogdanovich, and other road movie royalty.
Director
Shari Springer Berman
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Directors Berman and Pulcini made this between their Sundance darling The Naked Guy and Oscar-nominated American Splendor—proving they could pivot from fiction-doc to fiction-doc.
Released when road movies seemed dead (2006: peak GPS, pre-gas crisis nostalgia), it accidentally predicted their return via millennials discovering 35mm vistas on streaming.
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