Highway 61 (film)

• Valerie Buhagiar: Jackie Bangs
• Don McKellar: Pokey Jones
• Earl Pastko: Mr. Skin
• Peter Breck: Mr. Watson

Highway 61 is a Canadian road movie from director Bruce McDonald from the year 1991.

Action

Pokey lives in a small Canadian town. There he runs left by his father hair salon. He also inherited from his father a 1963 Ford Galaxie which is only in the garage. Pokeys passion is the Blues and he dreams of having his trumpet to act one day in New Orleans as a blues musician. Therefore Pokey always has a packed suitcase in the house and he can occasionally the engine of the Ford Galaxie running in the garage. Actually, he is ready to go for years, but he can not.

As Pokey one day finds a dead body in his backyard, movement comes into his life. Pokey suddenly becomes the focus of local attention and it appears in his hairdressing salon (actually a pure Herrensalon ) a woman; Bangs.

Bangs explains that the dead man was her brother and she intends to bring this to the funeral in New Orleans. After some tribulations, it follows that Pokey the two drives in his Ford. It begins a bizarre road movie where the two meet all sorts of things: a single father with three girls, bored music millionaires and a suburban resident who thinks he is the devil.

Reviews

" The fascination of Highway 61 is in his black humor and profound dramatic and comic situations commenting soundtrack of the film. Together with his actors McDonald has embarked on a musical dream journey that sent Genre myths entlarft, without the desire to take on the watch. "