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1) Paris, Texas
Summary
Travis, presumed dead, reappears on the Mexican border, world-weary and an amnesiac. He traces his brother Walt who is bringing up Hunter, his seven-year-old son, his ex-wife Jane having abandoned him at Walt's door. Hunter and Travis begin to build a friendship and conspire to find Jane.
3) Road to Bali
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Hope and Crosby star as two out-of-work vaudeville performers who are on the lam. The two are hired by a South Seas prince as deep-sea divers in order to recover a buried treasure. They meet beautiful Princess Lala (Lamour) and vie for her affections.
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It's Election Day on a remote island off the coast of Iran and a ballot box is parachuted to shore. An unnamed soldier is assigned to escort a female bureaucrat to gather votes. Together, they embark on a chaotic journey, turning the island upside down desperately seeking anyone's vote. There is more to the secret ballot than the two could ever imagine.
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Road to Singapore: "When young shipping mogul Josh Mallon comes too close to getting hitched, he and best buddy Ace Lannigan flee to the farthest point they can find on the map, Singapore."--Container.
Road to Zanzibar: Scheming carnival performers split town after selling a phony diamond mine and end up in Zanzibar where they meet a couple of con-women.
Road to Morocco: A princess buys shipwrecked Bob and plans to marry him.
Road to Utopia: Pretending...
6) The trip
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When Steve Coogan is asked by The Observer to tour the country's finest restaurants, he envisions it as the perfect getaway with his beautiful girlfriend. But when she backs out on him, he has no one to accompany him but his best friend and source of eternal aggravation, Rob Brydon.
7) Lake Tahoe
Series
Film Movement volume 7, film 3
Summary
After crashing the family car teen-age Juan embarks on a one-day journey to find help fixing it.
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Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon embark on another deliciously deadpan culinary road trip. This time around, the guys head to Spain to sample the best of the country's gastronomic offerings in between rounds of their hilariously off-the-cuff banter. Over plates of pintxos and paella, the pair exchange barbs and their patented celebrity impressions, as well as more serious reflections on what it means to settle into middle age.
10) Take me home
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Cabbie Thom Colvin isn't having a good day, and neither is Claire Barrow. When she hops into his cab and tells him to take her to California, their journey winding across America becomes the adventure of their lifetimes.
12) Scenic route
Summary
Mitchell and Carter, life-long friends who have drifted apart, are on a road trip when their old pickup breaks down, leaving them stranded on an isolated desert road. What begins as an inconvenience becomes a very real life or death struggle.
13) Camilla
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An unlikely pair, Jessica Tandy and Bridget Fonda, set off down the road to do everything they always wanted. On the way, they stage a kidnapping, get duped by a con man, lose their car in a lake and have the time of their lives.
14) First dog
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A foster boy is befriended by Teddy, a lost dog, who just happens to belong to the President of the United States, but nobody believes him. To prove his doubters wrong, they begin an amazing adventure across America to return the 'First Dog' to the White House.
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Rodrigo Carnicero would rather die than attend his son's latest wedding, so that's what he does, leaving the family to grapple with a will that's as diffucult as he was. Grandsons Rocco and Rodrigo take a road trip to Acapulco to scatter the old man's ashes at sea, learning a few family secrets along the way.
16) Annie's Point
Summary
A recently widowed grandmother is determined to grant her husband's last wish, that she set his ashes free over the idyllic bluff they called Annie's Point. When her son Richard refuses to let his mother make the two thousand-mile trip, she takes off anyway with her free-spirited granddaughter in tow.
17) Intimate Stories
Summary
Nothing will stop three neighbors from reaching San Julian, where they have been promised either fame, love, or redemption. Although they encounter detours along the way, they ultimately get what they wanted, but it will come in unexpected ways.
18) The dry land
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Suffering from severe memory loss, a young man leaves a loving wife and family for a cross-country road trip with an Army buddy. But the resurfacing memories prove to be too much for him and trigger a violent breakdown that threatens the life he is fighting to rebuild.
19) Soul men
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Louis and Floyd are two former backup soul singers who have not spoken to each other in 20 years. They reluctantly agree to travel across the country together to a reunion concert to honor their recently deceased lead singer. Cleo is a beautiful young woman who is believed to be Floyd's daughter. She accompanies them as their new singer.
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The all-American Clark family wins a deluxe European vacation tour. Ecstatic Mr. Clark (who seems to have O.D.'d on "Father Knows Best" reruns) plans a getaway jammed with forced family togetherness, two weeks sure to become a treasure trove of golden Griswald memories. For the Griswalds, it's typical holiday road havoc.
