Coast to Coast (1980)

User Rating:

5.1/10   

Director:

Joseph Sargent

Writer:

Stanley Weiser (writer)

Release Date:

3 October 1980 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama | Romance

Tagline:

Either way, love will win in the end

Plot:

Madie is a neurotic, wealthy woman who escapes from a New York state mental hospital where her unwholesome...

Plot Keywords:

Truck | Escape | Mental Institution | Highway | Revenge

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Dyan Cannon	...	Madie Levrington
Robert Blake	...	Charles Callahan
Quinn K. Redeker	...	Benjamin Levrington (as Quinn Redeker)
Michael Lerner	...	Dr. Frederick Froll
Maxine Stuart	...	Sam Klinger
William Lucking	...	Jules (as Bill Lucking)
Ellen Gerstein	...	Nurse #1
Patricia Conklin	...	Nurse #2
David Moody	...	Chester
Rozelle Gayle	...	Orderly
Martin Beck	...	Albert
Karen Rushmore	...	Callahan's Wife
Mae Williams	...	Waitress at Truckstop
George P. Wilbur	...	Billy Ray
Tom Pletts	...	Attendant

Runtime:

95 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Norway:11 | USA:PG

Filming Locations:

Farmington, California, USA

Company:

Paramount Pictures

Trivia:

This film was supposed to be a drama. Star Robert Blake felt that the film should be a comedy instead. So the script was rewritten during production to make it funnier.

Goofs:

Continuity: After Madie drives the truck through the house at the end, the tractor is pointed 45 degrees down from the front, but from the side it's straight.

Quotes:

Charles Callahan: My nuts are busted!

Soundtrack:

I Can Tell by the Way You Dance

Another trucker movie

I never caught the beginning of this movie, but obviously Madie Levrington (Dyan Cannon) escapes from a New York state mental hospital where her husband Benjamin had her committed to avoid the trial of an expensive divorce. Madie hitches a ride back to California with Charles Callahan (Robert Blake), a debt-ridden trucker. He drives a GMC General, yellow maybe. Maybe they met in Kansas City or they stopped in Kansas City to pick up some cattle. They eventually fall in love. But Madie steals the truck, cattle and all, leaving Charles behind, to go to her home in California. Charles hitches a ride and eventually catches up with the truck. He climbs into the open-top cattle trailer. But he can't stop Madie from back there. "I hate cows!" he says. Madie reaches her husband's home. The prospects don't look good for Benjamin.