The Long Dumb Road (2018)

Two guys serendipitously meet at a time when they both find themselves at personal crossroads and decide to embark on an unplanned road trip across the American Southwest.

Director:

Hannah Fidell

Writers:

Hannah Fidell, Carson Mell

Stars:

Tony Revolori, David DeLao, Lora Martinez-Cunningham

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Tony Revolori	...	Nat
David DeLao	...	Nat's Dad
Lora Martinez-Cunningham	...	Nat's Mom
Jason Mantzoukas	...	Richard
Derek Blakeney	...	Manny
LeAnne Lynch	...	Bartender (Marfa's Bar) (as Leanne Lynch)
Carson Mell	...	Cowboy Pool Player
Ciara Bravo	...	Ashly
Casey Wilson	...	Sharon
Taissa Farmiga	...	Rebecca
Grace Gummer	...	Nina
Chris Ranney	...	Mechanic
Ron Livingston	...	Francois
Kestrel Rose Browne	...	Francois's Baby
Pamela Reed	...	Dotty

Storyline

Two guys serendipitously meet at a time when they both find themselves at personal crossroads and decide to embark on an unplanned road trip across the American Southwest.

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Taglines:

Somewhere Between Texas and L.A., S#!T GOT WEIRD

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Genres:

Comedy

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for pervasive language, sexual content and some drug use

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

16 November 2018 (USA)

Also Known As:

The Long Dumb Road

Filming Locations:

Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA

Box Office

Opening Weekend USA:

$4,667, 11 November 2018, Limited Release

Gross USA:

$4,667, 11 November 2018

Company Credits

Production Co:

Gamechanger Films,Pretty Good Films,Ten Acre Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

90 min

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

This film features Taissa Farmiga, Ben Rosenfield and Lindsay Burdge in the cast; all three actors starred in Hannah Fidell's previous film, 6 Years (2015). Burdge also portrayed the lead role in Fidell's A Teacher (2013).

User Reviews

Two things in this movie bothered me

Do you know how expensive the tuition for a private Art School in Los Angeles? When the son of my wife's colleague decided to go to the private art school in Pasadena, it almost bankrupted them. The tuition was so expensive that she had to borrow money from the bank to pay for her son's art classes. How a poor young man from Texas could afford an art school in Los Angeles? How he could even afford paying his rent? Even he was accepted by a California college, he got to pay triple for his tuition, because he's not a Californian resident.

The second thing that bothered me and thought it was the stupidity of the screenplay writer and the production team, including the director, who were so out of touch. Did they know that people now are using digital cameras and SD card to shoot pictures? Making the young man from Texas still used the film camera was a big joke since developing photo films are even more expensive than using a digital camera with a laptop and a laser printer. You might even not be able to find a store where still sell films for such cameras. And in the end of this movie, we saw the young man from Texas was developing the films he shot from his road trip? So not only he got to pay for the rent, he got to have another space for his dark room to develop his photos.

This is not a realistic movie and by the way, since shooting movies with celluloid films instead with the digital cameras now are so expensive, we better not to call movies as "Films", because nowadays, movies made in celluloid films are not just rare but more expensive, we should just call motion pictures as "Movies"; because they got nothing to do with "film" anymore.