Highway

2002 "It started as a desperate escape and became the wildest ride of their lives"
6.1| 1h37m| R| en| More Info
Released: 26 March 2002 Released
Producted By: Alex Entertainment Inc.
Country: United States of America
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Jack is caught with the wife of his employer, a Vegas thug. The thug sends goons after Jack, who convinces his best friend, Pilot, to flee with him. Pilot insists that they head for Seattle, but doesn't tell Jack why. The goons learn from Pilot's drug source where the youths are headed, and they follow, hell bent on breaking Jack's feet. On the road, Jack and Pilot give a ride to Cassie, a distressed young woman. She and Jack hit it off. They pick up an aging stoner headed to Seattle for Kurt Cobain's memorial, and they help a circus sideshow family. Why is Pilot so set on Seattle, will the goons catch Jack, and is there any way the friends' competing needs can be resolved?

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James Cox

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Alex Entertainment Inc.

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Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much
Invaderbank The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.
Orla Zuniga It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review
Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
MBunge I would describe this film as a cross between a Bing Crosby/Bob Hope road movie and a Cheech and Chong drug flick, except that makes Highway sound much, much better than it is. This aimless, half formed effort takes a bunch of talented actors and then has them do nothing of any importance or relevance. The story is a bunch of arbitrarily connected episodes that unspool into an ending that flies in the face of logic and common sense. The characters are cartoonishly exaggerated. The direction is utterly unremarkable, save for the inexplicable use of slow motion at seemingly random moments.The alleged heroes of this tale are Jack Hayes (Jared Leto) and Pilot Kelson (Jake Gyllenhaal). Jack is a walking penis who, despite having lots and lots of sex, hasn't had an orgasm in 5 years. Pilot is an awkward, virginal drug dealer who actually seems more out of it sober than he does stoned. The two are childhood friends who grew up in Las Vegas and appear to have stopped their emotional development at the age of 11.After Jack gets caught screwing a rich man's wife, he and Pilot flee to Seattle to avoid the rich man's thugs breaking Jack's feet. They have various misadventures along the way, such as picking up a beautiful but tough hitchhiker named Cassie (Selma Blair) that Jack falls in love with, teaming up with a 40something, omnipurpose, counter-culture drug dealer named Johnny the Fox (John C. McGinley) and checking out an alligator boy, before arriving in Seattle during the vigil for the recently suicided Kurt Kobain.As those and other sadly contrived plot developments are unrolled, we also get a bunch of characterization in Jack and Pilot that arrives out of nowhere, amounts to nothing and then vanishes into the ether. It's like the movie is trying to hint at the supposed deep and profound friendship between our two lead characters and how it's being tested in this journey. Which isn't a bad idea…but writer Scott Rosenberg and director James Cox handle it with all the subtlety of an overcooked bean burrito.The only honest enjoyment to be found in Highway is in the performance of the cast. They're playing people who are stupid, annoying and contemptible but it's still fun to watch the energy and effort they put into them. It's a little like smelling something so foul that you're impressed by how much you're repulsed. Jeremy Piven, in particular, almost gives himself a stroke as Pilot's colossally over-the-top drug connection.There are a very few moments when Highway flirts with running completely off the rails and becoming a surrealistic farce. If it had gone that direction, maybe it would have mutated into something worth seeing. However, the movie always falls back into its own poorly conceived and executed simulation of reality.Highway is the type of film that merits nothing more than a shrug. It's clear what the filmmakers are trying to do and very clear that they're not doing it all that well. Unless you're already high as a kite and capable of delighting in anything that moves and makes noise, take a pass on this movie.
rebel-by-intention this movies is kicks butt it really kicks butt you have to watch it man i mean really you have to watch it it is really cool...... WATCH IT!!!! i demand thee!!! Just joking but watch it now i tell you it rocked my sock off watch it it will knock your socks off yeah it rocks i just rocks OK Jake look pretty good looking. this is for Jake G fans and yeah 1234567891011121314151617181920 i really like it it even mentions Kurt Cobain and what is a movie without a mentioning of Kurt Cobain i mean come it is plucking awesome and shirt like that i mean it is great..i like food...i am a movie buff i am just typing random stuff just so the comment can go on and yea so i love movies and music hey check out my band the unknown reject that's me lol yup i am pretty good at playing music and stuff so yeah and yeah i love making movies i plan on making movies and stuff i like making songs and reading. Reading is good it is awesome right now i am reading the catcher in the rye for the second time i love that book it kills me every time i read a paragraph there is something funny it has a lot of jokes and stuff well READ people read it is good for you and your eyes and stuff REaD your heart out then write stuff too.Read people read a lot i do i write a lot....Don't do DRUGS!!! don't smoke and don't drink and drive.
Mikko_Elo_ i don't know what everyone's complaining about, a funny movie with pretty people...works for me. but i think i know a bit...lots of people who watched this have seen two movies they think are great;it won't give you spiritual awakenings like donnie darko, it's not as dramatic as requeim for a dream.thankfully. somebody's even complaining about 'happy ending'...pfft.i give it a seven just to promote a rare modern movie that doesn't make me puke with music video cuts and dramatic substance for once.plus i can't recollect seeing a movie that would (even slightly) use the times of grunge as it's background.
mhpu9 A true movie about true friendship. Many may seem to think that a movie about two male best friends has something "gay" to it, but the truth is that there is nothing homosexual about a true brotherly love and care between two guys. People should break this prejudice. It is entertaining and fun to watch. It is based on a story about two friends (Leto & Gyllenhaal) that go on a road trip to Seattle for two different reasons. Leto's character is running away from their Nevada's home town because of troubles with his employer's wive, and Gyllenhaal's character wants to visit his high school graduation love interest that is now living in Seattle. I strongly recommend you this movie. You won't regret it.