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2) Wanderlust
Publisher
Docurama
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
From the award-winning directors of American splendor, this iconic movie traces America's love affair with the 'road movie' through interviews with Hollywood stars and clips from roadie classics.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
The plan for a quick stop at Mom's takes a turn when an impulse compels Andy to invite his mother, Joyce, on a three-thousand mile cross-country journey. But the further they go, the closer they get, and Andy realizes that they have more in common than he ever imagined.
5) Rain man
Series
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Charlie Babbitt (Cruise) has just discovered he has an autistic brother Raymond (Hoffman) and is now taking him on the ride of his life. Or is it the other way around? From his refusal to drive on major highways to a "four minutes to Wapner" meltdown at an Oklahoma farmhouse, Raymond pushes hot-headed Charlie to the limits of his patience ... and then pulls him completely out of his self-centered world! But what begins as an unsentimental journey...
6) Lake Tahoe
Series
Film Movement ; 7, film 3
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Español
Description
After crashing the family car teen-age Juan embarks on a one-day hourney to find help fixing it.
Language
English
Formats
Description
On a winding desert highway, eight vacation-bound motorists share an experience that alters their plans, and their lives! After a mysterious stranger divulges the location of a stolen fortune, they each speed off in a mind-bending, car-bashing race for the loot, and the most sidesplitting laugh fest in history.
Series
Criterion collection ; 692
Language
English
Formats
Description
"About a group of strangers fighting tooth and nail over buried treasure, is the most grandly harebrained movie ever made, a pileup of slapstick and borscht-belt-y one-liners performed by a nonpareil cast"--Container.
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jason Kelly, an uptight lawyer headed down the wrong path, is tricked by his rambunctious grandpa, Dick, into taking an outrageous road trip. While his methods may be unconventional, Dick is determined to teach him how to live life on his own terms.
10) Bad grandpa
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Johnny Knoxville reprises his Jackass role as 86-year-old Irving Zisman. Zisman is on a journey across America with the most unlikely companion: his eight-year-old grandson Billy. The duo will encounter male strippers, disgruntled child beauty pageant contestants, funeral home mourners, biker bar patrons, and a whole lot of unsuspecting citizens. Real people in unreal situations, making for one really messed up comedy.
11) The dry land
Publisher
Maya Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Suffering from severe memory loss, a young man leaves a loving wife and family for a cross-country road trip with an Army buddy. But the resurfacing memories prove to be too much for him and trigger a violent breakdown that threatens the life he is fighting to rebuild.
12) Scenic route
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mitchell and Carter, life-long friends who have drifted apart, are on a road trip when their old pickup breaks down, leaving them stranded on an isolated desert road. What begins as an inconvenience becomes a very real life or death struggle.
13) Vacation
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The next generation of Griswolds is at is again, and on the road for another ill-fated adventure. Following in his father₂s footsteps and hoping for some much-needed family bonding, a grown-up Rusty Griswold surprises his wife, and their two sons with a cross-country trip back to Wally World.
14) Locke
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A feat of bold, dynamic storytelling from Oscar-nominated writer-director Steven Knight. A successful businessman receives a series of phone calls which sets into motion a chain of events that unravels his perfect life, all of which takes the course of one absolutely riveting and intense car ride.
15) Kikujiro
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
日本語
Description
Lonely nine-year-old Masao leaves Tokyo in search of his mother, whom he has never met. He's accompanied on his journey across the Japanese countryside by the surly, middle-aged crook Kikujiro, who is none too happy being the chaperone. When Kikujiro gambles away all the travel money, the two must rely on their wits and the kindness of strangers.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
As an asteroid nears Earth, a man finds himself alone after his wife leaves in a panic. He decides to take a road trip to reunite with his high school sweetheart. Accompanying him is a neighbor who inadvertently puts a wrench in his plan.
17) The trip
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
When Steve Coogan is asked by The Observer to tour the country's finest restaurants, he envisions it as the perfect getaway with his beautiful girlfriend. But when she backs out on him, he has no one to accompany him but his best friend and source of eternal aggravation, Rob Brydon.
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
Español
Description
Rodrigo and Roco are cousins with little in common but devotion to their grandfather. When the grandfather dies, other family members are consumed by the the old man's will and the distribution of the inheritance. The two cousins take it upon themselves to carry out their grandfather's wishes to have his ashes scattered into the sea at Acapulco and embark on a journey of self-discovery and mutual understanding.
20) Into the wild
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Freshly graduated from college with a promising future ahead, Christopher McCandless walked out of his privileged life and into the wild in search of adventure. What happened to him on the way transformed this young wanderer into an enduring symbol for countless people, a fearless risk-taker who wrestled with the precarious balance between man and nature. Based on a true story.