Directed by:
Monte HellmanCinematography:
Gregory SandorCast:
James Taylor, Warren Oates, Laurie Bird, Dennis Wilson, Harry Dean Stanton, Alan Vint, Melissa Hellman, James Mitchum, George Mitchell, Rudy Wurlitzer (more)Plots(1)
Drag racing east from Los Angeles in a souped-up ’55 Chevy are the wayward Driver and Mechanic (singer-songwriter James Taylor and the Beach Boys’ Dennis Wilson, in their only acting roles), accompanied by a tagalong Girl (Laurie Bird). Along the way, they meet Warren Oates’s Pontiac GTO-driving wanderer and challenge him to a cross-country race. The prize: their cars’ pink slips. But no summary can do justice to the existential punch of Two-Lane Blacktop. With its gorgeous widescreen compositions and sophisticated look at American male obsession, this stripped-down narrative from maverick director Monte Hellman is one of the artistic high points of 1970s cinema, and possibly the greatest road movie ever made. (Criterion)
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A road movie with some interesting scenes, but also a road movie that might leave you completely indifferent. I probably belong more to the latter group because the film really didn't evoke many emotions in me. I wasn't exactly bored, but I just didn't see greatness in this work. And maybe I never will.
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