Interstate 60: Episodes of the Road (R: 2002)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0165832/
Director: Bob Gale. Starring: Matthew Edison … Quincy, Paul Brogren … Zack, Wayne Robson … Tolbert (Deep Stomach), Gary Oldman … O.W. Grant, Michael J. Fox … Mr. Baker, James Marsden … Neal Oliver, Melyssa Ade … Sally, and many more.
Rated R for language and sexual references.
Gale brings together an insightful modern movie about the whole entity that grants wishes – but this time, an American legend of one. No Genii in the bottle. No Leprauchaun, but America’s own O.W. Grant – a trickster compiled of all the tricksters of world mythology. He’s half-leprechaun and he smokes a pipe with smoke and glowing eyes that is representative of the Djinni. Quote from Neal in the movie: Given an infinite universe and infinite time, all things will happen. That means that every event is inevitable, including those that are impossible. And it’s as good an explanation for all of this as anything else. Now, a lot of stories start in bars, so that’s where we’re going to start this one. Not because I was there – I wasn’t. But because it’s a damn good introduction to a very unique… fellow. While the story is interwoven with various tales about others who were affected my this magical O.W. Grant, it focuses on a young artist named Neal. Neal is bombarded by pressures from his father to choose a different profession, and he can’t seem to get the guts up to stand up to dear old Dad. But then Neal meets O.W. Grant. Grant offers everyone he meets “one” wish as his name implies. Neal’s wish is for “answers”. So he is routed to take a road trip on the non-existent Interstate 60 upon which he seeks to find the girl of his dream that seems to appear on every blank billboard over his journey. He runs into bizarre towns and hillarious sitations including a town of lawyers ready to sue everyone for anything, and a town that is all about a Rave drug called Euphoria. It has character and elements of “Drop Dead Fred” but much more mild. I rather thoroughly enjoyed this tale. Rating: 4 stars out of 5.