In Montana, naive teenager George longs to escape from his broken home before his dysfunctional parents push him over the edge. When George meets pretty drifter Lucy, she easily convinces him and his friend Claude to join her on a road trip to Montana in hopes of breaking her brother out of jail.
Acting
Lili Taylor's unpredictable, live-wire menace.
Cinematography
Bleak Big Sky country as emotional prison.
Writing
Sam Shepard's sparse, broken family dialogue.
Director
Michael Fields
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of a wave of early 90s doomed-youth road movies (Thelma & Louise, My Own Private Idaho) that treated teenage drift as genuine tragedy, not adventure.
Bill Pullman shot his scenes during a break from Sleepless in Seattle—this and that in the same year is wild range.
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