on-the-road movies

Lonesome Dove (1989)

Thursday, March 11th, 2010
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Duvall, Robert | Jones, Tommy Lee | Glover, Danny | Lane, Diane | Urich, Robert | Forrest, Frederic | Sweeney, D.B. | Schroder, Rick | Huston, Anjelica | Cooper, Chris | Scott, Timothy | Headly, Glenne | Corbin, Barry | Sanderson, William | Tubb, Barry
Directors: Wincer, Simon
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Retired Texas Rangers Gus McRae and Woodrow Call are content to live out their remaining years in the tiny Texas town of Lonesome Dove. Then their old friend Jake comes to town, and tells them about the incredible oppurtunities for cattle ranching in Montana. Encouraged by this, Call convinces Gus and many other townspeople to go on a perilous cattle drive to Montana. Gus has another agenda though: his former sweetheart now lives in Nebraska, and he hopes for a second chance with her. As the drive goes on it takes on an epic scale, ultimately becoming what could well be called the central event in the lives of all involved.

Lucky Ones, The (2008)

Thursday, March 11th, 2010
Genres: Comedy | Drama | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Robbins, Tim | McAdams, Rachel | Peña, Michael | Hagan, Molly | Young, Mark L. | Platt, Howard | Heard, John | Myrin, Arden | Goss, Coby | Brown, Vis | Garrett, Spencer | Korby, Katie | LaNasa, Katherine | Manning, Conner | Manning, William
Directors: Burger, Neil
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After suffering an injury during a routine patrol, hardened sergeant TK Poole is granted a one-month leave to visit his fiancé. But when an unexpected blackout cancels all flights out of New York, TK agrees to share a ride to Pittsburgh with two similarly stranded servicemen: Cheever, an older family man who longs to return to his wife in St. Louis, and Colee, a naive private who’s pinned her hopes on connecting with a dead fellow soldier’s family. What begins as a short trip unexpectedly evolves into a longer journey. Forced to grapple with old relationships, broken hopes and a country divided over the war, TK, Cheever and Colee discover that home is not quite what they remembered, and that the unlikely companionship they’ve found might be what matters the most.

Babe: Pig in the City (1998)

Friday, November 28th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Family | Fantasy
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Szubanski, Magda | Cromwell, James | Stein, Mary | Rooney, Mickey | Daily, Elizabeth | Mann, Danny | Headly, Glenne | Wright, Steven | Cosmo, James | Kress, Nathan | Jeffrey, Myles | Ross, Stanley Ralph | Taylor, Russi | Goldberg, Adam | Barth, Eddie
Directors: Miller, George
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After Babe’s great victory in the shepherding contest, Farmer Arthur Hoggett turns down all offers to make money with his pig’s talents. But when he gets hurt severely in the well, his wife has to take up farming. She does her best but cannot meet the bank’s requirements, which results in the necessity of getting back to Babe. Soon, Esme Hoggett is sitting in a plane headed for “the” city. There, Babe unwillingly causes deep trouble. He has to stay with Mrs. Hoggett in the only hotel in town that accepts pets. Friendly neighbours send officials who catch all animals from the hotel: Cats, dogs, chimpanzees and many others. Babe, who managed to stay free, decides to help his new friends and gets unexpected help - not only by Ferdinand, who flew all the way to the city.

All the Pretty Horses (2000)

Friday, October 10th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Damon, Matt | Thomas, Henry | Cruz, Penélope | Young, J.D. | Poe, Laura | Shepard, Sam | Patrick, Robert | Black, Lucas | Diaz, Yvette | Colindres, Imelda | Solis, Augustin | Blades, Rubén | Ibarra, Elizabeth | Colon, Miriam | Rodriguez, Lonnie
Directors: Thornton, Billy Bob
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Two young Texas cowboys on the cusp of manhood ride into 1940’s Mexico in search of experience. What they find is a country as chaotic as it is beautiful, as cruel and unfeeling as it is mysterious, where death is a constant, capricious companion.

Crossroads (1986)

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Music | Mystery | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Macchio, Ralph | Seneca, Joe | Gertz, Jami | Morton, Joe | Judd, Robert | Vai, Steve | Dennis Lipscomb | Carey Jr., Harry | Hancock, John | Arbus, Allan | Palmer, Gretchen | Fann, Al | Taylor, Wally | Russ, Tim | Donaldson, Tex
Directors: Hill, Walter
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Eugene is an extraordinary talent in classic guitar, but he dreams of being a famous Blues guitarist. So he investigates to find a storied lost song. He asks the legendary Blues musician Willie Brown to help him, but Willie demands to free him from the old-people’s prison first and to really learn the blues on the way to it’s origin: Mississippi Delta. Eugene doesn’t know yet about Willie’s deal with the devil, that he now wants to revoke.

My Cousin Vinny (1992)

Monday, January 21st, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime
Countries: USA
Actors: Pesci, Joe | Macchio, Ralph | Tomei, Marisa | Whitfield, Mitchell | Gwynne, Fred | Smith, Lane | Pendleton, Austin | McGill, Bruce | Chaykin, Maury | Myers, Paulene | Scheine, Raynor | Rebhorn, James | Ellis, Chris | Simpson, Michael | Walker, Lou
Directors: Lynn, Jonathan
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While heading for college, Bill and Stan are arrested in Alabama when circumstances point to them as having murdered a convenience store clerk. Unable to afford an attorney, they turn to Bill’s cousin Vinny, a brash New Yorker who took six tries to pass his bar exam. Worse, until now he’s only taken personal injury cases, none of which have gone to trial. Dragging along his even more abrasive fiancee Mona Lisa Vito, Vinny will have to straighten up fast, and keep out of jail himself, if he’s going to win the case.

Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006)

Sunday, October 21st, 2007
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Baron Cohen, Sacha | Davitian, Ken | Luenell | Barr, Bob | Ciorobea, Spirea | Keyes, Alan | Psenicksa, Michael | Rowe, Bobby | Sell, Jim | Walker, Larry | Äliyev, Ilham | Anderson, Pamela | Behar, Mariam | Stein, Linda
Directors: Charles, Larry
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Kazakhstani TV personality Borat is dispatched to the United States to report on the “greatest country in the world.” With a documentary crew in tow, Borat becomes more interested in locating and marrying Pamela Anderson than on his assignment.

Monster (2003)

Saturday, September 1st, 2007
Genres: Biography | Crime | Drama | Romance | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Theron, Charlize | Ricci, Christina | Dern, Bruce | Tergesen, Lee | Vince, Pruitt Taylor | Corley, Annie | St. John, Marco | Macaulay, Marc | Wilson, Scott | Blackwell, Rus | Ware, Tim | Jones, Stephan | Rice, Brett | Riley, Kaitlin | Ivey, Cree
Directors: Jenkins, Patty
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A dark tale based on the true story of Aileen Wuornos, one of America’s first female serial killers. Wuornos had a difficult and cruel childhood plagued by abuse and drug use in Michigan. She became a prostitute by the age of thirteen, the same year she became pregnant. She eventually moved to Florida where she began earning a living as a highway prostitute—servicing the desires of semi-truck drivers. The tale focuses on the nine month period between 1989 and 1990, during which Wuornos had a lesbian relationship with a woman named Selby. And during that very same time, she also began murdering her clientele in order to get money without using sex. This turned the tables on a rather common phenomena of female highway prostitutes being the victims of serial killers—instead Wuornos, herself, carried out the deeds of a cold-blooded killer.

Thelma & Louise (1991)

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: France | USA
Actors: Sarandon, Susan | Davis, Geena | Keitel, Harvey | Madsen, Michael | McDonald, Christopher | Tobolowsky, Stephen | Pitt, Brad | Carhart, Timothy | Jenney, Lucinda | Beghe, Jason | St. John, Marco | Davis, Sonny Carl | Swofford, Ken | Desai, Shelly | Mansell, Carol
Directors: Scott, Ridley
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Louise is working in a fast food restaurant as a waitress and has some problems with her friend Jimmy, who, as a musician, is always on the road. Thelma is married to Darryl who likes his wife to stay quiet in the kitchen so that he can watch football on TV. One day they decide to break out of their normal life and jump in the car and hit the road. Their journey, however, turns into a flight when Louise kills a man who threatens to rape Thelma. They decide to go to Mexico, but soon they are hunted by American police.

Great Race, The (1965)

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Family | Musical | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: Lemmon, Jack | Curtis, Tony | Wood, Natalie | Falk, Peter | Wynn, Keenan | O'Connell, Arthur | Vance, Vivian | Provine, Dorothy | Storch, Larry | Martin, Ross | Macready, George | Kaplan, Marvin | Smith, Hal | Pyle, Denver | Bryant, William
Directors: Edwards, Blake
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Professional daredevil and white-suited hero, The Great Leslie, convinces turn-of-the-century auto makers that a race from New York to Paris (westward across America, the Bering Straight and Russia) will help to promote automobile sales. Leslie’s arch-rival, the mustached and black-attired Professor Fate vows to beat Leslie to the finish line in a car of Fate’s own invention. The Blake Edwards style of slapstick and song originated with this movie. A dedication to Laurel and Hardy appears at the beginning of the film. Edwards’ tribute to Stan and Ollie can be seen most clearly in the interaction between Professor Fate and his cohort Max, as well as in the operatic Pottsdorf pie fight.