Okay, I'm the only person I know who has ever seen this movie. It's a surreal road trip movie written by the same guy who wrote After Hours (a personal favorite, by the by).
The story follows a kid who escapes a seemingly abusive home and hits the road in a cherry-red mustang, having fashioned some leg-extenders to reach the pedals. For the most part, nobody seems to recognize that he is a kid and simply treat him as a really short guy. A short guy who, incidentally, is a bit of a dick.
Said dick soon becomes obsessed with this game provided by the Chimera gas company. With each fill-up, the kid is given stickers that contain one letter each from the word MOTORAMA. The goal is to find each letter and spell the word. And so he sets off on an adventure to earn all the letters and win millions of dollars.
And it's fucking bizarre.
Over the course of this journey he loses an eye, gets forcibly tattooed by Meat Loaf, and convinces a man to abandon his children at a park. He travels from one weird fictitious state to another (for example "South Lydon - The Lonesome State") meeting increasingly bizarre characters played by the likes of Robert Picardo and Flea. Drew Barrymore shows up for about ten seconds in a dream sequence, nabbing her a large place on the incredibly misleading DVD cover.
I've searched for other people who've seen it online and a common thread is that the whole thing is the kid's fantasy while trapped at home, but even that makes little sense in light of where the narrative goes, namely - time travel.
At the end of the movie there's a huge rewind. Everything done to the kid reverses. Sort of. He goes back to the start of his journey, but I'm not sure what the hell happened. Robert Picardo is now a completely different person that he was before, but another character, a kindly gas station attendant, is now in a state that was entirely caused by the kid in his journey.
This movie makes almost zero sense to me. But I love it. There's just so much oddity on display. Anyone else seen it?
The story follows a kid who escapes a seemingly abusive home and hits the road in a cherry-red mustang, having fashioned some leg-extenders to reach the pedals. For the most part, nobody seems to recognize that he is a kid and simply treat him as a really short guy. A short guy who, incidentally, is a bit of a dick.
Said dick soon becomes obsessed with this game provided by the Chimera gas company. With each fill-up, the kid is given stickers that contain one letter each from the word MOTORAMA. The goal is to find each letter and spell the word. And so he sets off on an adventure to earn all the letters and win millions of dollars.
And it's fucking bizarre.
Over the course of this journey he loses an eye, gets forcibly tattooed by Meat Loaf, and convinces a man to abandon his children at a park. He travels from one weird fictitious state to another (for example "South Lydon - The Lonesome State") meeting increasingly bizarre characters played by the likes of Robert Picardo and Flea. Drew Barrymore shows up for about ten seconds in a dream sequence, nabbing her a large place on the incredibly misleading DVD cover.
I've searched for other people who've seen it online and a common thread is that the whole thing is the kid's fantasy while trapped at home, but even that makes little sense in light of where the narrative goes, namely - time travel.
At the end of the movie there's a huge rewind. Everything done to the kid reverses. Sort of. He goes back to the start of his journey, but I'm not sure what the hell happened. Robert Picardo is now a completely different person that he was before, but another character, a kindly gas station attendant, is now in a state that was entirely caused by the kid in his journey.
This movie makes almost zero sense to me. But I love it. There's just so much oddity on display. Anyone else seen it?
