Two-Lane Blacktop
no beginning... no end... no speed limit...
no beginning... no end... no speed limit...
Drama
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1971
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A driver and mechanic drag racing for money cross paths with a female hitchhiker and a drifter who challenges them to a cross-country race.
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Runtime:
102 min
Release date:
7 Jul 1971
Country:
US
Languages:
English
Budget:
$850,000
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
1 win & 2 nominations total
Top Critics Reviews
fresh:
It came nowhere close to the numbers on Easy Rider, but it is so much more worthwhile as a film. Indeed, I'm going to push my luck and say there has never been a better film about sweaters.
– David Thomson,
The New Republic,
20 Jun 2013
fresh:
Two-Lane Blacktop is a movie of achingly eloquent landscapes and absurdly inert characters.
– J. Hoberman,
Village Voice,
13 Dec 2007
fresh:
The strange and sometimes pathetic world of barnstorming, hustling street-racing is explored with feeling by director-editor Monte Hellman.
– Variety Staff,
Variety,
13 Dec 2007
fresh:
This exciting existentialist road movie by Monte Hellman, with a swell script by Rudolph Wurlitzer and Will Corry and my favorite Warren Oates performance, looks even better now than it did in 1971.
– Jonathan Rosenbaum,
Chicago Reader,
13 Dec 2007
fresh:
It's absolutely riveting.
– Tom Milne,
Time Out,
24 Jun 2006