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
Two-Lane Blacktop
no beginning... no end... no speed limit...
1971 · 1h 43m · R
Drama
Directed by
Monte Hellman
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Two-Lane Blacktop
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Monte Hellman Director
- James Taylor as The Driver
- Warren Oates as G.T.O.
- Dennis Wilson as The Mechanic
- Laurie Bird as The Girl
- Rudy Wurlitzer as Hot Rod Driver
- Harry Dean Stanton as Oklahoma Hitchhiker
- Jaclyn Hellman as Hot Rod Driver's Girl
- Alan Vint as Man in Roadhouse
- Katherine Squire as Old Woman
- Bill Keller as Texas Hitchhiker
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
92%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Two-Lane Blacktop is a movie of achingly eloquent landscapes and absurdly inert characters.
J. Hoberman, Village Voice
Fresh
The strange and sometimes pathetic world of barnstorming, hustling street-racing is explored with feeling by director-editor Monte Hellman.
Variety Staff, Variety
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
Fresh
It's absolutely riveting.
Tom Milne, Time Out
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