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Overview

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Director:

Morgan J. Freeman

Writer:

Morgan J. Freeman (writer)

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Genre:

Comedy | Drama more

Plot:

An academic obsessed with "roadside attractions" and his tv-star daughter finally discover the world's largest ice cream cone... more | add synopsis

Awards:

1 nomination more

User Comments:

Christina Ricci blasts all! more (30 total)


Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Casey Affleck ... Pete Kepler
Brendan Sexton III ... Blue Baxter

Kate Hudson ... Skye Davidson

Christina Ricci ... Ely Jackson

John Heard ... Prof. Lance Davidson

Ethan Suplee ... Cale

Sara Gilbert ... Sandy

Isidra Vega ... Haley Gordon

Peter Sarsgaard ... Billy Baxter

Rene Rivera ... Dr. Gordon
Lee Holmes ... Deputy Keeler
Lucinda Jenney ... Caroline Baxter
Jerry Agee ... Insurance Agent
Daniel von Bargen ... Sheriff Jackson
Richmond Arquette ... Truck Driver
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Additional Details

MPAA:

Rated R for strong language and some teen alcohol abuse.

Runtime:

90 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Filming Locations:

Goldfield, Nevada, USA more

Company:

HSX Films more


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Trivia:

The city of Goldfield, Nevada had more snow during the four weeks of production than it had in the preceding thirty years. more

Quotes:

Professor Davidson: Remember: one person's interminable stretch of highway is--
Skye Davidson: Is another person's road to adventure, I know. But going out of our way to see a giant ice-cream cone? That's crazy.
Professor Davidson: Crazy? Crazy is NOT to see the giant ice-cream cone. How'd you like to tell your friends we were in Baxter--Oh, didja see the giant ice-cream cone? No, we missed it. THAT would be crazy.
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Movie Connections:

References Star Wars (1977) more

Soundtrack:

Death of a Minor TV Celebrity more


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Christina Ricci blasts all!, 2 July 2001
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Author: Nuno_Reis from Oporto, Portugal

I've recently seen this movie on TV and I remembered to comment it for IMDb. The movie has a good story and is very well conducted by this Morgan Freeman, the cast is also great: Christina Ricci and some brothers of great stars (Richmond Arquette is one of the Arquette Brother, Casey Affleck, younger brother of Ben Affleck) that also act great, although not as well as they expert brothers and sisters. Kate Hudson's character, Skye, is very interesting and she had a great start and she liked her teammates so much that she (she meet Casey Affleck and Christina Ricci again in "200 cigarettes"). The funniest scenes of the movies are the blasts, and the most touching is the water running in the end. This movie may be forgotten in a couple of years, but I know that everyone that as an almost impossible dream like the sea in the desert will remember this story after achieving that dream.

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