Film201978 min

Adopt a Highway

Name: Adopt a Highway
Genre: Drama
Released: 2019
Duration: 78 min
Cast: Ethan Hawke, Elaine Hendrix, Diane Gaeta, Betty Gabriel, Mo McRae

Taste attributes: dramaslowheavycomplex relationship

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Boxlist takeSlow-burning and weighty: a drama that is balanced on everything else. Best if you like depth over escapism.

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Pace: slow · Originality: balanced · Tone: balanced · Weight: heavy · Realism: balanced · Story: balanced · Structure: balanced · Look: balanced · Scale: balanced · Emotional punch: balancedHow we score

Quality rating

6.9 /10

TMDB · 88 votes

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Pace: Slow, just how this profile likes it

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Synopsis

Russ Millings has just been released from prison after serving 21 years for a 3rd strike conviction for possessing an ounce of marijuana. As he tries to adapt to a world he doesn’t recognize – including trying to learn how to use the internet – he finds an abandoned baby in a dumpster behind the fast food restaurant where he works as a dishwasher. Unsure of what to do, and caught between impulses of kindness and panic, Russ soon realizes this could be his chance at redemption. Starring Ethan Hawke in a critically acclaimed performance, Adopt a Highway “will simultaneously warm and shatter your heart” (Marisa Mirabal, Birth.Movies.Death.)

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