Two-Lane Blacktop

Two-Lane Blacktop

no beginning... no end... no speed limit...

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Release Date

7/7/1971

Runtime

102 mins

Genres

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.

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

$850,000

Revenue

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A hypnotic drift across American highways where the race matters less than the restless searching it masks. This is a film about men (and the woman caught in their orbit) running from something they can't name, finding only the hum of engines and the vast emptiness of the road.

Mood

TenseWistful

Themes

ObsessionFreedomIdentityMortality

Tone

Detached

Pacing

Slow-burn

Look

NaturalisticHandheldDocumentary-like

Structure

Road movie

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