Roadhouse 66

Roadhouse 66 (1984)

Genres - Comedy  |   Sub-Genres - Buddy Film, Chase Movie  |   Release Date - Aug 31, 1984 (USA - Unknown)  |   Run Time - 96 min.  |   Countries - United States  |   MPAA Rating - R
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Synopsis by Eleanor Mannikka

In this routine story for a teen audience, Beckman (Judge Reinhold) is a buttoned-down, upwardly-mobile type suddenly stranded in a small Arizona town when his car damaged by local youths. It is Labor Day weekend when Beckman and Johnny (Willem Dafoe), the streetwise hitchhiker who has with him, are stranded in Bowman, Arizona waiting for their radiator to be fixed -- it was shot through by the vandals. While there, the two men play some pool, meet some attractive women, and learn from each other so that when the time comes to enter the big annual drag race, they are ready to even the score with the guys who killed off the radiator. Even for teens, this may be too dull -- except for Reinhold's interpretation and the many rock songs that jazz up the soundtrack.

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extortion, rock-music, drag-racing, gangster, hitchhiker, mob-boss, on-the-road, problems, scheme, car, small-town, stranded