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| Title: HONKY TONK FREEWAY Year: 1981 Rating: **** |
John Schlesinger's HONKY TONK FREEWAY has two composers: Elmer Bernstein doing his usual triumphant march while Beatles producer George Martin's melancholy interludes are thrown in randomly for an offbeat cross-country road-movie with everything...
Featuring an eclectic Robert Altman-esque ensemble ranging from an RV-vacationing family, a pimp with two novice hookers, a hitchhiking coke dealer, two bank robbers, two nuns and the poster-bearing rhinoceros... all winding up at the fictional Florida town of Ticlaw...
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| From John Schlesinger's HONKY TONK FREEWAY |
And while known for having cost and lost tons of money, FREEWAY is both a fast-moving adventure and witty ensemble-comedy with the two main characters representing both points on the map... as William Devane's small town mayor creates an illegal off-ramp to get his desperate nowhere town back in business...
Then there's Beau Bridges as a failed children's story author who, with loose ex-waitress Beverly D'Angelo, envelopes a freestyle experience that, although tanking at the box-office, provided the big-screen feel to rudimentary cable-television outlets... from afternoon to after-midnight screenings.... for the same diverse Americans that are equally celebrated and parodied herein.
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| David Rasche as a pimp in HONKY TONK FREEWAY |
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| Howard Hesseman as an RV dad in HONKY TONK FREEWAY |
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| Teri Garr as an RV mom in HONKY TONK FREEWAY |
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| Peter Billingsly as their RV son in HONKY TONK FREEWAY |
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| Beau Bridges in HONKY TONK FREEWAY |
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| Beau Bridges and Beverly D'Angelo in HONKY TONK FREEWAY |
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| Daniel Stern in HONKY TONK FREEWAY |
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| Ann Coleman in HONKY TONK FREEWAY |
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| Beverly D'Angelo in HONKY TONK FREEWAY |
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| Ann Risley and Ken Lerner in HONKY TONK FREEWAY |
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| Beau Bridges in HONKY TONK FREEWAY |
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| George Dzundza and Joe Grafisi in HONKY TONK FREEWAY |
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| Jerry Hardin and James Staley in HONKY TONK FREEWAY |
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| Barbara Rush in HONKY TONK FREEWAY |
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| Cute young nun Deborah Rush in HONKY TONK FREEWAY |
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| Mean old nun Gerandine Page in HONKY TONK FREEWAY |
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| Retired couple Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy in HONKY TONK FREEWAY |
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| Hooker and Waitress Sondra McCabe and Celia Weston in HONKY TONK FREEWAY |
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| William Devane in HONKY TONK FREEWAY |
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| Beau Bridges and Beverly D'Angelo in HONKY TONK FREEWAY |
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