Interstate 60 film review (0)

Interstate 60 film review
The storyline is based on the main character Neal Oliver having his birthday wish come true – an open -ended wish – to find the meaning of life. The answer lies with a strange blond girl Lynn Linden who provides the protagonist with clues and signs through billboard messages, the non-existent Interstate 60, and the destination of an unknown package to a mysterious town called Danver.
The movie begins with two college students in a bar, talking about a thesis statement for an upcoming paper. One of them makes an argument that America is unique in that it has no real mythological character for granting wishes, such as a genie or leprechaun . The two men are soon joined in conversation by an old man at the bar claiming that America does, named O.W. Grant ; the son of aleprechaun and a Cheyenne Indian .
Neal checks a number of roadmaps, but there does not appear to be an Interstate 60. Taking a guess, he sets out West , only to encounter O.W. Grant along the roadside. Grant happily greets Neal, and hands him a bag containing a 'birthday present .' The present turns out to be a  Magic 8-Ball, which can answer any yes-or-no question that Neal asks it. Shortly after their meeting , Grant gives Neal some directions, and they are soon on the unlisted Interstate 60.
Traveling along the mysterious highway, Neal and Grant discuss such things as the humor found in causing people to recognize the gullible side of themselves, Grant's unfortunate accident that cost him his penis , and the certainty of knowing what to wish for. Grant departs soon after, leaving Neal to run into such characters as:

• A promiscuous woman looking for perfect sex. She leaves the car after Neal tells her that her "perfect sex" will be what she never got from him, because its potential will outweigh any real-life encounter.
  
• The same man who told the two men in the beginning about O.W. Grant. Neal and O.W. encounter him as he walks into a diner and makes a bet that he can eat a gigantic amount of food in an hour without throwing up or relieving himself. He wins the bet, but reveals that he got this ability as a wish, and that it has drained any enjoyment of food he used to have.
  
• A dying and persistently honest ex-advertiser named Bob Cody (Chris Cooper ) with lung cancer...and dynamite. He hires Neal to drive him, and approves when he follows his requests (silence and honesty). He later helps Neal in the town of Morlaw.
  
• A lonely mother looking for her slacker son, who turns out to be living in a city where the population is addicted to a government -controlled drug, Euphoria; Kurt Russell is the local police chief with a penchant for dry humor.
  
• A Museum of Art Fraud run by Mrs. James (Ann- Margret ) that actually contains real masterpieces posing as fakes that are undetected by the visiting poseurs.
  
• The town of Morlaw, where every citizen is a lawyer who spend their days suing each other , and imprisoning and exploiting unwary travelers on trumped-up charges.
  

Leaving the hospital , Neal finally confronts his father and asserts his right to live his life without his father's interference, and then proceeds with his sister to an art gallery at her insistence, confused as to why he'd need to be there with none of his work submitted. Once there, he realizes that his painting of the "Fork in the Road " was submitted to the art gallery. A few moments later, Grant appears, reminding Neal of the value of honesty and humor. A girl who resembles Lynn (also played by Amy Smart ) talks to him, interested in commissioning him to do a series of paintings on roadside motels and diners. As they chat , Grant is seen talking softly to Neal's sister. "You have a birthday coming up, right?" he says , smiling mischievously. "Don't forget to make a wish..."