Rating: R
Genre:
Crime
Release Date: 03/26/2002
SubTitles: English
Dubbed: English
Sound: 5.1/2
Run Time: 97 Minutes
Flags: Violence, Nudity, Adult Situations, Strong Sexual Content, Adult Humor, Profanity
Distributor/Studio: New Line Home Video
Two friends hit the road to escape some homicidal gangsters with a score to settle in this angsty Gen-X flick set against the backdrop of the mid-'90s
grunge music scene.
Highway opens with its mohawked post-teen hero
Jack (
Jared Leto), up to his usual routine: smoking pot, cleaning pools, and engaging in vigorous sex with a mobster's wife. It isn't long before vengeful thugs come calling to his Las Vegas trailer-park home, however, and
Jack has to flee town with his drug-dealing best buddy,
Pilot (
Jake Gyllenhaal). The two decide to travel to Seattle -- in the week preceding
Kurt Cobain's suicide -- and along the way they encounter a succession of drifters, losers, and hangers-on, including a sweet-hearted prostitute named
Cassie (
Selma Blair).
Highway's working title was "A Leonard Cohen Afterworld," a reference to a lyric from
Kurt Cobain's song
"Pennyroyal Tea"; the film was written by
Scott Rosenberg, who previously made a name for himself with
Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead,
Beautiful Girls, and
Con Air.
~ Michael Hastings, All Movie Guide
;)
