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A ten year-old boy runs away from his abusive parents, steals a Mustang, and a pursues a promotional card game sold at gas stations.A ten year-old boy runs away from his abusive parents, steals a Mustang, and a pursues a promotional card game sold at gas stations.A ten year-old boy runs away from his abusive parents, steals a Mustang, and a pursues a promotional card game sold at gas stations.
Cynthia King
- Girl in Backseat
- (as Cynthia R. King)
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Did you know
- TriviaFilmed in December of 1990, and made the rounds at a few festivals, but didn't get a proper release until January 1993.
- GoofsWhen Phil is running down the road chasing after his kite, two crewmembers are visible at the bottom left-hand side of the screen, running ahead of him, flying the kite that is supposed to be blowing away.
- Quotes
Fantasy Girl: Motorama... Motorama, Gus. You won, you did it!
- ConnectionsFeatured in I Don't Know Jack (2002)
- SoundtracksKing Of The Twelve Ounce Bottles
Performed by Range War
Written by Lee Ving
Published by Range War Music
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One of the great "lost" road movies.
Too bad 'Motorama' never found an audience that would appreciate it! Misleadingly thought by some to be a kids movie, it is closer in spirit to David Lynch's stylized surreal looks at the "real" America. Jordan Christopher Michael plays a young boy who runs away from home, and travel across America in a stolen car. Only it isn't exactly America as we know it. At a gas station he is given some "motorama" cards, which are part of a competition which has a possible 500 million dollar prize. He slowly becomes obsessed with the game as he continues on his increasingly bizarre trip, which sees him encounter a strange bunch of oddballs, eccentrics and weirdos. He even loses an eye along the way! The nutters he interacts with are played by an amazing array of character actors and cult figures including Lynch favourite Jack Nance ('Eraserhead'), Susan Tyrrell ('Flesh and Blood'), Mary Woronov ('Eating Raoul'), Michael J. Pollard ('Bonnie And Clyde'), John Diehl ('Stripes'), Dick Miller ('A Bucket Of Blood'), Robert Picardo ('Innerspace'), Flea, Meatloaf, and a teenage Drew Barrymore (note sleaze fans - a pre-breast reduction teenage Drew Barrymore!). This movie is easily overlooked in the video racks - especially with its misleading "Home Alone meets Thelma And Louise" packaging - but it is really worth watching. Fans of quirky road movies like 'Wild At Heart', 'Highway 61' or 'Roadside Prophets' should enjoy this quietly subversive dark fantasy, which in my opinion is one of the most unfairly overlooked movies of the last ten years or so.
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- Jul 31, 2002
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- Release date
- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- Моторама
- Filming locations
- Fox Plaza - 2121 Avenue of the Stars, Century City, Los Angeles, California, USA(Chimera Gas headquarters)
- Production companies
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Box office
- Budget
- $1,800,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $10,535
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $5,577
- Jan 17, 1993
- Gross worldwide
- $10,535
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