Revisit these iconic summer movies, from coming-of-age favorites, to whirlwind romances, to camp A married couple is forced to reckon with their idealized image of their son, adopted from war-torn Eritrea, after an alarming discovery by a devoted high school teacher User Reviews. Completely Underrated. "Adopt a Highway" opens with a cacophony of voices, President Bill Clinton saying we must be "tough on crime," speechifying about the "three strikes law" and mandatory sentencing for drug-related crimes. The so-called War on Drugs was a disaster, resulting in extremely long sentences for minor offenses.
Adopt A Highway Logan Marshall-Green has a medicinal journey in his mind and its tickets are worth more than they ask for. "Adopt a Highway" is the kind of film you recommend only to certain friends, ones who you trust to appreciate its occasional oddness. After the end, you'll probably remain a bit mystified and find yourself reflecting on its quiet scenes. For me, that was just fine.
I liked thinking about this movie some more. At its core, "Adopt a Highway" is about choices; the choices that the justice system makes and Russell's own — both good and bad and with or without the best How do you make a movie about one of the nicest guys ever enter the entertainment business? Get the nicest guy in Hollywood. "Adopt a Highway" is a haunting yet hopeful road movie that marks the directorial debut of Logan Marshall-Green. From the outset, we see that Marshall-Green and his superbly skilled crew have carefully studied the indie film ethos, as his equally nascent cinematographer Pepe Avila del Pino. It stars Ethan Hawke, Elaine Hendrix, Diane Gaeta, Betty Gabriel, Mo McRae. SXSW Film Review: 'Adopt a Highway'.
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Where does all that bitterness go? When someone's life is taken from them. In Adopt a Highway — from first-time writer-director and veteran actor Logan Marshall-Green — Ethan Hawke's character Russell is adjusting to life on the In an ensemble cast of small roles where his character is the only one with a film-length arc, Hawke's performance quite literally carries the movie.
Anything about Logan Marshall-Green's traumatic Adopt A Highway begins with Hawke, an old mainstay in movies, who has made a career out of primarily staying out of big mainstream movies in favor of more character-focused titles. "Adopt a Highway" is a haunting yet hopeful road movie that marks the directorial debut of Logan Marshall-Green. From the outset, we see that Marshall-Green and his superbly skilled crew have carefully studied the indie film ethos, as his equally nascent cinematographer Pepe Avila del Pino. He gets a job at a restaurant, finds a baby in a dumpster, takes care of I'll start out by saying Logan Marshall-Green is really talented, last year's Upgrade was incredible and showed how a theater released movie with a. Adopt A Highway seems as confused as its lead character, wandering around and never quite figuring out what story it wants to tell.