A Little Trip to Heaven

A Little Trip to Heaven is an IcelandicAmerican noirinspired drama and thriller film from 2005, directed by Icelandic director of The Sea, Baltasar Kormkur. The film is set in the U.S. in 1985 but almost entirely shot in Iceland. Icelandic musician Mugison composed and performed the soundtrack, except for the song A Little Trip to Heaven, which is originally by Tom Waits. Mugison performs the Waits song on the soundtrack.

The film centers around three vehicle crashes, which are first introduced to the viewer one after another at the very beginning of the movie. The first shows a young couple flying through the open roof of their convertible, which has been ejected over a cliff. They swim to shore, where the woman hits the leg of her fellow passenger with a pipe. The second involves a city bus and insurance adjustor Abe Holt Forest Whitaker, who has arrived at the scene on the suspicion that many of the passengers boarded the bus after the accident, looking to file a claim. Holt bluffs, claiming a hidden camera will help sort out who was truly on the bus many leave, and his coworker Peter Coyote quickly tells him their company wants him to investigate a crash in the remote and desolate town of North Hastings, Minnesota.The third crash involves an unnamed young man who is stranded at the side of the road on a rainy night, after stopping in the local bar. He accepts a ride from the man who has drained his gas tank, who proceeds to speed the car against the wall of a tunnel, injuring his passenger in the wreck. The anonymous man is dragged to the front seat and buckled in before the gas is poured over the car and set ablaze. However, to those who later discover the crash it appears that Kelvin Anderson has died after crashing his own car into the tunnel wall, prompting a spontaneous vehicle fire that burned his body beyond recognition. The local police are convinced it is an openandshut case, as Kelvins drivers license is found in the glovebox, the plates on the car match Kelvins, and Kelvins sister, Isold Julia Stiles, lives on the other side of the tunnel. ........

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