Two-Lane Blacktop

★★★★★

“no beginning... no end... no speed limit...”

1971 · 1 h 42 min

Directed by Monte Hellman

Drama

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Cast

James Taylor Warren Oates Laurie Bird Dennis Wilson David Drake Richard Ruth

Credits

Written by: Rudy Wurlitzer

Plot

Two young drifters in a souped-up 1955 Chevy and a talkative older man in a new Pontiac GTO race across the American Southwest for pink slips, in a minimalist, existential road movie with James Taylor and Dennis Wilson.

Sinekatalog’s take

A minimalist and existential road-movie classic.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.

Ratings

IMDb: 7.2 / 10 (14,627 votes)
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