Interstate 60

Interstate 60 (also known as Interstate 60: Episodes of the Road) is a 2002 American independent road film written and directed by Bob Gale in his directorial debut. The film stars James Marsden, Gary Oldman, Amy Smart, Christopher Lloyd, Chris Cooper, Amy Jo Johnson, Art Evans, Ann-Margret and Kurt Russell, with a cameo by Michael J. Fox. In the film, an aspiring artist takes a trip to the fictional town of Danver, Colorado searching for an answer to his life and a dream girl.

Cast

Release

Home media

Deleted scenes

The DVD includes several deleted scenes and the "bridges" where they would be placed in the film. They include: Neal visits an AAA office where he seeks information about Interstate 60 that the service representative repeatedly tells him does not exist. The man explains the American Interstate Highway System to Neal. Neal discovers that if I-60 did exist, it would be oriented west to east and be north of Interstate 40 and south of Interstate 70. When told by the man in the bar about O. W. Grant at the film's beginning, a waitress tells Neal that she had never seen the man before but he had won a large amount of bets by consuming large quantities of alcohol in a brief time without throwing up or urinating. This is the same man who appears later in a diner and makes similar bets that he can eat large amounts of food without releasing them through similar processes. The man admitted he acquired this quality through a wish from O.W. Grant but did not enjoy it, because in addition to being able to eat without stopping, he now must do so to avoid starving. Neal meets his father in his office saying that he doesn't want to be in a pigeon hole. His father says that everyone in the world is in a pigeon hole, even starving artists; there are good pigeon holes and bad pigeon holes so it is better to be in a good one. At the beginning of his road journey, Neal receives a call on his car phone but shuts it off narrating that the only freedom left in the 21st Century is to be incommunicado. After leaving the hospital at the end of the film, Neal breaks up with his girlfriend who calls him a loser and that artists starving for their work only exist in the previous century.

Reception

Box office

Following a limited release in US, R-rated Interstate 60 grossed $8,449 at the domestic box office against a $7 million budget.

Critical response

Robert Koehler, writing in Variety, criticized the film's "juvenile obviousness" and says that the themes do not feel genuine. Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes lists 4 reviews, and reports 3 positive and 1 negative review.

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