High Road (film)

High Road is a 2011 American improvised comedy film directed by Matt Walsh, who cowrote it with Josh Weiner. The film surrounds a young man whose loyalties are torn between his band, girlfriend, and dealing weed. Attempting to elude arrest after a drug bust, he is accompanied by his teenage runaway neighbor. It stars James Pumphrey, Abby Elliott, Dylan OBrien, and Rob Riggle. It also premiered at the 2011 Newport Beach Film Festival, where for Matt Walshs directing, it won an honor for Outstanding Achievement in Filmmaking.

Mistaken for a kidnap, James gets help from a police academy graduate and ally, Officer Fogerty Joe Lo Truglio, setting out in search for his son through their own investigation. Along the way, Jimmy attempts to keep Fitz sober, preventing Fitz from smoking. They also plot and successfully switch cars to derail the cops from tracking them by trading vehicles with Fitzs exband mates Sheila Lizzy Caplan and Richie Matt L. Jones, who have since become a tribute band in Bakersfield, California.Monica has become pregnant with Fitzs child, but encounters a brief affair with her married boss, Barry Ed Helms, the latter which she informs Fitz about. Upset Fitz left her behind, she pursues his trail. In the other pursuit, James and Officer Fogerty eventually tracks and catches up to Fitz and Jimmy, who had slept overnight in their van after visiting a diner. They are nearly captured, but Jimmy deflates their car tire and escapes with Fitz. Fitz and Jimmy have a fallout and stop at a roadside, where Jimmy trips and breaks his hand, running back to their vehicle that is being towed. Faking their names, they stop at a clinic, where the peculiar doctor Horatio Sanz suspects Fitz has kidnapped and is molesting Jimmy due to his good looks. Once Jimmy has a cast and sling on, however, he leaves with Fitz, taking a taxi ride to a bar named Berlin in Oakland. ........

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