Road

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Road

2005

1h 32m

Drama

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When Margaret (Catherine Kellner) gets a job photographing toxic waste sites for the government, she asks her ex-boyfriend Jay (Ebon Moss-Bachrach) to come along. Jay accepts her invitation on this unusual road trip -- but learns to his disappointment that Margaret is engaged. Their journey gets considerably odder as the former couple keep getting lost in strange territory, face off with inhospitable locals and discover that their gas level hasn't changed one bit during the whole trip.

J. R. Jones

Chicago Reader

Writer-director Leslie McCleave knows how to stir the pot, dropping various weird or menacing characters in the couple's path, but by the end of the movie's 92 minutes it still isn't soup yet.

Nov 16, 2006

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Robert Koehler

Variety

What begins as a faintly unsettling Twilight Zone riff, soon becomes deadly with repetition and a lack of ideas.

Nov 16, 2006

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Michael Wilmington

Chicago Tribune

McCleave, making her feature debut, shows skill and emotion.

Rated: 2.5/4

Nov 16, 2006

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Steven Snyder

Zertinet Movies

It's a less "entertaining" movie, but a much more life-affirming one.

Rated: 3.5/4

Mar 21, 2007

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Michele Kenner

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Writer-director Leslie McCleave offers no explanation beyond juxtaposing sour lake beds and radioactive vats with the tension between the former lovers. The environment, with upstate New York standing in for Ontario, rarely looks this distasteful.

Rated: 2/4

Mar 16, 2007

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Audience Member

Very beautiful bitter sweet movie, A reminder of the real deal & the human condition of denial.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/20/23

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Audience Member

A good twilight-zone style road film. Environmental themes, the works. dig it.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/09/23

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Audience Member

Interesting movie. Worth watching if you can deal with the bad acting. Could be classified as one of those "i have insomnia, let's see whats on showtime" movies.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

01/24/23

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Synopsis

When Margaret (Catherine Kellner) gets a job photographing toxic waste sites for the government, she asks her ex-boyfriend Jay (Ebon Moss-Bachrach) to come along. Jay accepts her invitation on this unusual road trip -- but learns to his disappointment that Margaret is engaged. Their journey gets considerably odder as the former couple keep getting lost in strange territory, face off with inhospitable locals and discover that their gas level hasn't changed one bit during the whole trip.

Director: Leslie McCleave
Producer: Zachary Mortensen, Leslie McCleave
Screenwriter: Leslie McCleave
Production Co: Ghost Robot, Mystery City Films
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 8, 2017
Runtime: 1h 32m