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A small-town barber goes on a road trip from Thunder Bay to New Orleans with an unpredictable woman and a coffin.A small-town barber goes on a road trip from Thunder Bay to New Orleans with an unpredictable woman and a coffin.A small-town barber goes on a road trip from Thunder Bay to New Orleans with an unpredictable woman and a coffin.
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- TriviaBruce McDonald was offered by Capitol Records the song Life is a Highway by Tom Cochrane to use in the film. McDonald turned it down, citing that it was "too poppy".
- GoofsThe characters pass by Mammy's Cupboard, a restaurant that looks like a giant southern African-American woman. It is seen soon after the characters leave the Canada-Minnesota border. In reality, the restaurant is located near the opposite end of highway 61, in southern Mississippi.
- Quotes
Jackie Bangs: Now I know why they call you Pokey.
Pokey Jones: Now I know why they call you Bangs.
- Crazy creditsMr. Skin can be heard speaking over the very end of the closing credits.
- SoundtracksMy Way or the Highway
Written by Tony Kenny
Performed by The Razorbacks
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A road picture: the story of a goof, a coffin, a wild woman and the devil.
The goof is a barber and frustrated trumpet player with no life, no love and no prospects.
With the coffin strapped to the roof of his vintage car, manipulated by the wiles of the anti-heroine our anti-hero finds himself motoring from Thunder Bay to New Orleans along old Highway 61, the thoroughfare made famous in song.
Toronto filmmaker Bruce McDonald brings his gonzo rock 'n' rock style to what is obviously not your conventional love story.
But it is a hell of a wild ride that invokes motorcycle gangs, wacko farmers and Jello Biafra in a strange and wonderful cameo.
An off-beat delight.
Comment written by Liza Levchuk
With the coffin strapped to the roof of his vintage car, manipulated by the wiles of the anti-heroine our anti-hero finds himself motoring from Thunder Bay to New Orleans along old Highway 61, the thoroughfare made famous in song.
Toronto filmmaker Bruce McDonald brings his gonzo rock 'n' rock style to what is obviously not your conventional love story.
But it is a hell of a wild ride that invokes motorcycle gangs, wacko farmers and Jello Biafra in a strange and wonderful cameo.
An off-beat delight.
Comment written by Liza Levchuk
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- May 17, 2000
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