Posts Tagged ‘hitchhiker’

Transamerica (2005)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Andrea James | Felicity Huffman | Danny Burstein | Maurice Orozco | Elizabeth Peña | Craig Bockhorn | Paul Borghese | Kevin Zegers | Jon Budinoff | Venida Evans | Raynor Scheine | Kate Bayley | Stella Maeve | Teala Dunn | Jim Frangione
Directors: Duncan Tucker
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One week before her sex-change operation, Bree receives a call from a 17-year-old identifying himself as her son from a college liaison. Bree’s psychiatrist won’t approve the surgery until Bree deals with this relationship, so Bree flies to New York City, bails the youth out of juvenile detention, and offers him a ride back to Los Angeles without disclosing that she is his father. Both her plans and his go awry, and as secrets will out, what might become a friendship (or more) founders. The lad’s step-father, a sex-change support group, a peyote eater, a Navajo wrangler, and Bree’s family all play their parts in this exploration of family, gender, and expectations.

The Hitcher (2007)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: C. Thomas Howell | Rutger Hauer | Jennifer Jason Leigh | Jeffrey DeMunn | John M. Jackson | Billy Green Bush | Jack Thibeau | Armin Shimerman | Gene Davis | Jon Van Ness | Henry Darrow | Tony Epper | Tom Spratley | Colin Campbell
Directors: Robert Harmon
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A road trip takes a deadly turn when a young couple are tormented by a pyschotic hitchhiker who forces them to face their fears head-on.

The Hitcher II: I’ve Been Waiting (2003)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Kari Wuhrer | Jake Busey | C. Thomas Howell | Shaun Johnston | Marty Antonini | Darcy Dunlop | Duncan Fraser | Mackenzie Gray | Stephen Hair | Terry King | Doug MacLeod | Austen Meadows | Janne Mortil | Valerie Planche | Jim Rattai
Directors: Louis Morneau
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After being discharged from the local police force, Jim Halsey (C. Thomas Howell) travels to Texas with his girlfriend Maggie (Kari Wuhrer) to face down his demons and visit an old friend. Along the way, however, Jim & Maggie picks up a demented hitchhiker who has diabolical plans for the duo.

Ted Bundy (2002)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Biography | Crime | Drama | Horror | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Michael Reilly Burke | Boti Bliss | Julianna McCarthy | Jennifer Tisdale | Michael Santos | Anna Lee Wooster | Steffani Brass | Tricia Dickson | Meadow Sisto | Eric DaRe | Melissa Schmidt | Deborah Offner | Zarah Little | Alison West | Matt Hoffman
Directors: Matthew Bright
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Docu-drama based on the life of Ted Bundy, a serial killer who killed at least 19 young women during the 1970’s (though some sources say as many as 30 to 35 were murdered). Set from his college student years, to his first victims, his capture, escape from prison (twice), his final killing spree to his trial, conviction and execution.

The World’s Fastest Indian (2005)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Biography | Drama | Sport
Countries: New Zealand | USA
Actors: Anthony Hopkins | Iain Rea | Tessa Mitchell | Aaron Murphy | Tim Shadbolt | Annie Whittle | Greg Johnson | Antony Starr | Kate Sullivan | Craig Hall | Jim Bowman | Alison Bruce | Phoebe Falconer | Charles Pierard | Barry Ryan
Directors: Roger Donaldson
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In `60s New Zealand, at the bottom of the world, Burt Munro takes a 1920 Indian motorcycle and, delightfully without resources other than his own obsession and a Kiwi #8 wire mentality, spends his retirement rebuilding the bike and following his dream to go to Speed Week at Salt Lake in Utah. Under funded, without the support of a team and against all the odds he not only makes it to Bonneville, he sets a world land spend record, not once, but again and again.

Riding the Bullet (2004)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Horror | Thriller
Countries: Canada | Germany | USA
Actors: Jonathan Jackson | David Arquette | Cliff Robertson | Barbara Hershey | Erika Christensen | Barry W. Levy | Jackson Warris | Jeffrey Ballard | Peter LaCroix | Chris Gauthier | Robin Nielsen | Matt Frewer | Simon Webb | Keith Dallas | Danielle Dunn-Morris
Directors: Mick Garris
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A young man hitchhiking back home to visit his mother is picked up by a mysterious stranger. As the ride goes on, the young man uncovers a terrible secret about the stranger, and is given a choice by the stranger. A choice that can mean life or death.

EuroTrip (2004)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Rade Serbedzija | Joanna Lumley | Scott Mechlowicz | Jacob Pitts | Kristin Kreuk | Cathy Meils | Nial Iskhakov | Michelle Trachtenberg | Travis Wester | Matt Damon | J. Adams | Christopher Baird | Nicholas J.M. Cloutman | Bruce Fulford | Molly Schade | Jakki Degg | Lenka Vomocilova
Directors: Jeff Schaffer | Alec Berg | David Mandel
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When Scotty’s German online pen pal suggests they meet, he initially freaks out. But then he discovers that she’s gorgeous, and heads out with three friends after graduation to meet her. As they travel across Europe, the four friends have comical misadventures.

Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Jason Mewes | Ben Affleck | Jeff Anderson | Brian O'Halloran | Shannon Elizabeth | Eliza Dushku | Ali Larter | Jennifer Schwalbach Smith | Will Ferrell | Jason Lee | Judd Nelson | George Carlin | Carrie Fisher | Seann William Scott
Directors: Kevin Smith
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Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back is a tale of adventure on the open road. When Dante and Randal (of Clerks fame) get a restraining order to keep the punchy Jay and his hetero life-mate, Silent Bob, from selling drugs in front of the Quick Stop convenience store, their lives are suddenly empty. They find new purpose when their friend, Brodie, informs them a movie is being made featuring two infamous characters based on their likenesses. After visiting one of the creators of the Bluntman and Chronic, Holden McNeil, they set out to get what fat movie cash they deserve and hopefully put an end to people slandering them on the Internet. Along the way, they learn the rules of the road from a hitchhiking George Carlin, ride with a group of gorgeous jewel thieves, and incur the wrath of a hapless wildlife marshal for liberating an orangutan named Suzanne. The quest takes them from New Jersey to Hollywood where a showdown involving the police, the jewel thieves, and the Bluntman and Chronic filmmakers will decide the fate of Suzanne, Jay, Silent Bob, and their good names.

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Johnny Depp | Benicio Del Toro | Tobey Maguire | Ellen Barkin | Gary Busey | Christina Ricci | Mark Harmon | Cameron Diaz | Katherine Helmond | Michael Jeter | Penn Jillette | Craig Bierko | Lyle Lovett | Flea | Laraine Newman
Directors: Terry Gilliam
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The big-screen version of Hunter S. Thompson’s seminal psychedelic classic about his road trip across Western America as he and his large Samoan lawyer searched desperately for the “American dream”… they were helped in large part by the huge amount of drugs and alcohol kept in their convertible, The Red Shark.

Interstate 60 (2002)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Drama | Fantasy
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Kurt Russell | Amy Smart | Matthew Edison | Paul Brogren | Wayne Robson | Gary Oldman | Michael J. Fox | James Marsden | Melyssa Ade | John Bourgeois | Roz Michaels | Amy Stewart | Christopher Lloyd | Jonathon Whittaker | Mark Lutz | Krista Leis | Michael Rhoades
Directors: Bob Gale
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Neal Oliver is a young artist, but his father doesn’t like his choice and wants him to go to Oxford. Everything changes after Neal’s meeting with O.W.Grant, who grants exactly one wish per person, as his name suggests. Neal wishes for answers, and so he must travel to the nonexistent Danver by the nonexistent Interstate 60. In this trip he hopes to find the girl of his dreams, following the trail of her photos on the advertising stands along the route. Many encounters await him ahead. Will he receive what he asked for?