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1) Nebraska
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After receiving a sweepstakes letter in the mail, a cantankerous father thinks he's struck it rich, and wrangles his estranged son into taking a road trip to claim the fortune. Getting waylaid in the father's hometown in Nebraska, the son tries to reconnect with his impenetrable father.
2) Dog
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Briggs, alongside his companion Lulu, A Belgian Malinois haul ass down the Pacific Coast in time to catch their best friendb2ss and handler's funeral. One of them has a week to live, the other lives like every day are his last.
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Two strangers, both folk musicians stranded in California, take a road trip to New York in the days after 9/11. Official Selection at the **Seattle International Film Festival**. *"David Heinz's excellent debut is an ardent plea for togetherness in a divided world. Aided by his leading actors, talented cinematographer, and ear-worm of a soundtrack, Joni and Elliott's journey is a privilege to share." - Chloe Walker, **Film Inquiry***
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Horatio Nelson Jackson, an eccentric Vermont doctor, drove from San Francisco to New York City, in 1903 to became the first person to drive an automobile across the continent - a feat never before accomplished. It would mark the beginning of a new era in America and the end of another. It took Lewis & Clark over two years to go from the Atlantic to the Pacific - Horatio went the opposite direction, by means of the "Horseless carriage", in less than...
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Rikky is a geologist and part-time singer who gets no respect from her wealthy father, her male bosses or her audiences. Pete is a mechanical genius who divides his time between building strange machines and playing pranks on the local constable. Feeling stifled by polite Melbourne society, they head for the Australian outback in their mother's Bentley.
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Matt Hanlon, has one responsibility: Get his kids to Aunt Tess's house by Christmas Day or his wife will be more than crazy mad at him. No big deal because he has three days to get there and it's only an 800 mile drive. What he didn't count on was getting lost during a freak mountain storm and ending up having to rely on the kindness of Bonnie Kate, a 70-something cowgirl protector of a hidden herd of wild horses.
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Through a series of misunderstandings, Alvin, Simon, and Theodore come to believe that Dave is going to propose to his new girlfriend in Miami, and dump them. They have three days to get to him and stop the proposal, saving themselves not only from losing Dave but possibly from gaining a terrible stepbrother.
12) Duel
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A traveling businessman is menaced on the highway by a huge diesel truck. Although he can never see the psychopathic driver of the truck, he soon realizes that this guy is out to kill him!
13) Due date
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Language, drug use and sexual content.
Expectant first-time father Peter Highman looks forward to his new child's due date five days away. As Peter hurries to catch a flight home from Atlanta to be at his wife's side for the birth, his best intentions go completely awry. An encounter with aspiring actor Ethan Tremblay forces Peter to hitch a ride with Ethan on a cross-country trip that will ultimately destroy several cars, many friendships, and Peter's...
14) Tammy
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Tammy is having a bad day. She's totaled her car, gotten fired from her job at a burger joint, and finds her husband getting comfortable with the neighbor in her own house. It's time to take her boom box and book it. The bad news is she's broke and without wheels. The worse news is her grandma, Pearl, is her only option-with a car, cash, and an itch to see Niagara Falls. Not exactly the escape Tammy had in mind. But on the road, with grandma riding...
Series
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Behemoth: "A logger and a seismologist team up to fight a gigantic monster that is emerging from beneath a mountain." Roadkill: "A group taking a road trip across Ireland runs afoul of some gypsies, whose curse causes them to be pursued by a mythical bird of prey." Ferocious planet: "It was a groundbreaking device designed to glimpse alternate universes. But the machine malfunctioned on its first presentation, transporting a group of observers into...
16) Grace is gone
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Stanley Phillips is a sad, disconnected man unable to tell his young daughters that their mother, a soldier, has died in Iraq. Instead, he takes the girls on a road trip, where their innocent charm helps him rediscover a healing joy he thought he'd lost forever.