Honky Tonk Freeway
Honky Tonk Freeway is a 1981 comedy film directed by John Schlesinger. The film, conceived and coproduced by Don Boyd, was one of the most expensive box office flops in history, losing its British backers ThornEMI an estimated 11,000,000 and profoundly affecting its fortunes and aspirations. The film was financed in part by accountant Roy Tuckers tax avoidance schemes funded by the Rossminster banking group.
When the state highway commission builds a freeway adjacent to the town, Calo slips an official 10,000 to assure an off ramp. The ramp doesnt come, so the townsfolk literally paint the town pink to attract visitors.Meanwhile, tourists from various parts of the United States, shown in a series of concurrent, ongoing vignettes, are heading to Florida and will all end up in Ticlaw, one way or another. They include a pair of bank robbers from New York George Dzundza, Joe Grifasi who pick up a cocainedealing hitchhiker Daniel Stern a Chicago copy machine repairman Beau Bridges, who picks up a waitress Beverly DAngelo, who is carrying her deceased mothers ashes to Florida a dentist and his dysfunctonal family Howard Hesseman, Teri Garr, Peter Billingsley, vacationing crosscountry in their RV an elderly woman Jessica Tandy with a drinking problem and her loving husband Hume Cronyn, who are heading to Florida to retire two nuns mother superior Geraldine Page, novice nun Deborah Rush and a wannabe country songwriter hauling a playful rhino and other wild animals to Ticlaw. ........
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