Out Jan. 8, 2013.
Drag racing east from L.A. 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 (Cockfighter’s 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 (The Shooting) is one of the artistic high points of 1970s
cinema, and possibly the greatest road movie ever made.
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