The Grapes of Wrath (1940), Little Miss Sunshine (2006), Up in the Air (2009), The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994), Harry and Tonto (1974), Away We Go (2009), Radio Flyer (1992), Lost in America (1985) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Cross Country Trip movies.
Storyline: It's the start of WWII in Northern Australia. The Japanese are getting close. People are evacuating and burning everything in a "scorched earth" policy. Rather than kill all their cattle, a disparate group decides to drive them overland half way across the continent.—Steve Crook <steve@brainstorm.co.uk>
Plot Keywords: australia, cattle drive, river crossing, laughter, crocodile, scotsman, looking out a window ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Businessman and first time father (to-be), Peter Highman's in Atalanta trying to get home to LA, where how wife's about to give birth, but after getting kicked off a plane, due to his seat mate, the pair end up trying to hitch a ride to the west coast.
Plot Keywords: actor, car rollover, car chase, car accident, car crash, subtitled scene, anger ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Framed by an ex-partner for a murder he did not commit, Tobey Marshall, a financially struggling custom-car builder and street-racer, spends two years in jail thinking about one moment. Fresh out of prison he reacquires the fastest car his workshop ever built and sold, and seeks to enter a secretive and extremely high-stakes race known as The DeLeon. His purpose; redemption, recognition from the world of racing and to solve his problems. Yet all this fades in comparison to his driving reason. Revenge. Above all, revenge. This is a story about love, redemption, revenge and motor oil all swirled together
Plot Keywords: public nudity, street racing, death of friend, car race, car crash, car rollover, car stunt ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Kit Madden is traveling to Hollywood, where her best-selling novel is to be filmed. Aboard the train, she encounters Marines Rusty and Dink, who don't know she is the author of the famous book, and who don't think much of the ideas it proposes. She and Rusty are greatly attracted, but she doesn't know how to deal with his disdain for the book's author.—Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>
Plot Keywords: train, gas station, reference to cary grant, journey, train journey, cross country trip, chicago illinois ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The last movie with Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin together, is a satire of the life in Hollywood. Steve Wiley is a deceiver who cheats Malcolm Smith when he wins a car, claiming that he won it too. Trying to steal the car, Steve tells Malcolm that he lives in Hollywood, next to Anita Ekberg's. When Malcom hears that, they both set out for Hollywood and the adventure begins...—Chris Makrozahopoulos <makzax@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: breast, grand canyon, jalopy, movie premiere, movie studio, movie theater, native american ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After a freak accident infuses him with the power of super-speed, Turbo kicks into overdrive and embarks on an extraordinary journey to achieve the seemingly impossible: competing in the world's fastest race, the Indianapolis 500. With the help of his tricked-out streetwise snail crew, this ultimate underdog puts his heart and shell on the line to prove that no dream is too big, and no dreamer too small.
Plot Keywords: title spoken by character, car crash, injury, victory, referee, car mechanic, french canadian ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Two brothers drive across country to see their hero, Roberto Clemente, get his 3000th hit.
Plot Keywords: 1970s, baseball, brother brother relationship, southern california, cross country trip, road trip, based on true story ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In this follow-up to "The Trouble with Angels", the wry but wise Mother Superior of St. Francis Academy For Girls accompanies a group of nuns including modern, progressive Sister George, with their high-spirited students on a bus trip across America to a California peace rally. Along the way, they encounter a series of adventures that include multiple bus problems, an overnight stay at a Catholic school for boys run by Father Chase, a Western dude ranch owned by millionaire Mr. Farriday, a flamboyant movie director shooting a Western on location, and a bunch of menacing biker toughs.—alfiehitchie
Plot Keywords: mother superior, sequel, convent, on the road, roadtrip, catholic, catholic priest ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: This is a powerful drama about a young woman who stumbles into a nightmare land of hijacking and humiliation while driving cross-country from California to New York.—L.H. Wong <as9401k56@ntuvax.ntu.ac.sg>
Plot Keywords: rape victim, injustice, thief, female protagonist, social commentary, shootout, american flag ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Hoping to bring his family closer together and to recreate his childhood vacation for his own kids, an adult Rusty Griswold takes his wife and two sons on a cross-country road trip to Walley World. Needless to say, things don't go quite as planned.
Plot Keywords: vacation, penis, pubic hair, dysfunctional family, road trip, amusement park, sequel ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A Kansas City waitress with dreams of becoming a nurse becomes delusional after seeing her no-good car salesman husband murdered. Becoming delusional from shock, she becomes convinced that she is the former fiancée of her soap opera idol. What she also believes is that the soap opera is real and goes to LA to find the hospital where he works as a cardiologist. Meanwhile, her husband's murderers are searching for the drugs stolen by her husband and, as luck would have it, they are stored in the trunk of the car she drove off in. Freeman, an aging hit man planning his retirement after this job, also becomes delusional about the woman he is tracking.
Plot Keywords: crying, friendship, friend, garage, gun, hallucination, husband wife relationship ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Rahul embarks on a journey to a small town in Tamil Nadu to fulfill the last wish of his grandfather: to have his ashes immersed in the Holy water of Rameshwaram. En route, he meets a woman hailing from a unique family down South. As they find love through this journey in the exuberant lands of South India, an unanticipated drive awaits them.
Plot Keywords: temple, train ride, train station, chance meeting, telephone call, ash scattering, grandmother grandson relationship ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: On a train, Keith and Mick chat about the blues and the Rolling Stones are born. Douglas and Joe chat in front of a New Jersey music store, and a band is born: as Douglas's sister tells us, it's one of many that don't make it. We follow Douglas from high school (1963-64), when he sees himself as a loser, into the band, playing drums and singing backup - then as the front man. There are tensions, a breakup, an audition in front of a major player, and decisions. Douglas pursues Grace, a country-club gal with hip sensibilities who believes in him. There's also his father, working class, wanting Douglas to apply himself as he watches his own life fill with regrets.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: christmas present, christmas tree, mental hospital, sister sister relationship, guitar player, brawl, teenager ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Los Angeles based organic chemist Andrew Brewster has just sunk his life savings into developing and now marketing an environmentally friendly, effective and human safe home cleaning product. Despite these attributes, he is having problems making any sales to distributors and retailers. He has planned a cross country business trip via automobile to make sales pitches to various companies along the way, starting in New York City and ending in Las Vegas. While in New York, Andy plans to stay with his overbearing mother, New Jersey residing Joyce Brewster, with who he has a love/hate relationship and who he does not see very often anymore. He doesn't want to tell her of his sales failures thus far as he knows she will only add more than her two-cents into the matter, which he doesn't want. Joyce's focus of attention is on Andy's single status and what looks to be his stalled romantic life, out of which again he wants her to stay. Widowed when Andy was eight, Joyce has never remarried or ...
Plot Keywords: mother son relationship, car driving, car, overprotective mother, smiling, affection, traveling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A boy preacher named Isaac goes to a town in Nebraska called Gatlin and gets all the children to murder every adult in town. A young couple have a murder to report and they go to the nearest town (Gatlin) to seek help but the town seems deserted. They are soon trapped in Gatlin with little chance of getting out alive.
Plot Keywords: corn, cornfield, desolation, boy, cult, meat cleaver, hit by a car ...
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