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Director Jerry Schatzberg’s 1980 fictionalised biopic of popular Country and Western singer Willie Nelson oddly uses the vintage classical music romantic soap opera drama Intermezzo (1939) as a starting point. The screenplay is based on the story by Gustaf […]
Sally Field rejoins her favourite director Martin Ritt (Norma Rae, Murphy’s Romance) for this familiar but easy-going and likeable 1981 romantic-comedy road movie drama about a prostitute called Amy Post (Field) and a drifter failed fighter named Elmore […]
Director Victor Schertzinger’s happy 1940 Paramount comedy Road to Singapore is the first of the memorable series of Road movies starring Bob Hope, Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour. Hope and Crosby star as playboys Ace Lannigan […]
Writer/ director Jordan Roberts’s humorous 2004 road movie is inspired by the relationship between Roberts and the absentee, substance-using father he barely knew, Robert Stone Jordan, latterly an indie film director/producer. It stars Christopher Walken as Turner Lair, Michael Caine as his father, […]
‘If you want to be a duchess, be a duchess. If you want to make love, hat’s off.’ – Mark Wallace (Albert Finney). Producer-director Stanley Donen’s seemingly lightweight 1967 romantic comedy Two for the Road […]
Directors Peter Farrelly and Bobby Farrelly’s 2000 comedy finds Jim Carrey on top comic form as Charlie, a mild policeman who has to balance his responsibilities with a split-personality as a psychotic state trooper named […]
Director Igor Auzins’s 1977 Australian buddy comedy drama stars Joseph Bottoms and Grigor Taylor as Tex and Alby, two fun-loving carnival men who set off on the Aussie road to Surfers Paradise on the Gold Coast in […]