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Two-Lane Blacktop Dvd

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Collection: Criterion Collection
Format: DVD
Year: 1971
Director: Monte Hellman
Genre: Drama
Cast: James Taylor, Warren Oates, Laurie Bird, Dennis Wilson, Rudolph Wurlitzer, Jaclyn Hellman, Bill Keller, Harry Dean Stanton, Alan Vint, George Mitchell, A. J. Solari, Katherine Squire, Melissa Hellman, Jared Hellman, 1955 Chevrolet, 1970 Pontiac
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Language: English
Release Date: 2013-08-01
Description

Drag racing east from Los Angeles in a souped-up ’55 Chevy are the wayward Driver and Mechanic (singer-songwriter James Taylor and the Beach Boys’ Dennis Wilson, in their only acting roles), accompanied by a tagalong Girl (Laurie Bird). Along the way, they meet Warren Oates’s Pontiac GTO–driving wanderer and challenge him to a cross-country race. The prize: their cars’ pink slips. But no summary can do justice to the existential punch of Two-Lane Blacktop. With its gorgeous widescreen compositions and sophisticated look at American male obsession, this stripped-down narrative from maverick director Monte Hellman is one of the artistic high points of 1970s cinema, and possibly the greatest road movie ever made.