"Road to Everywhere" is Now Everywhere
Back in June, I wrote here about the movie “Road to Everywhere” that my friend Michael Shoob wrote and directed. It’s the sequel to his movie “Driven” that he’d made…30 years earlier.
The film is really wonderful – and it’s not just my biased opinion for a friend. On Rotten Tomatoes, it has a 96% rating, based on 50+ ratings. It doesn’t have enough critics reviews yet to qualify for an overall rating, but all four that it does have are each graded “Fresh,” their highest level. As the NYC Movie Guru writes – “A profound, honest, engrossing and beautifully shot emotional journey well worth taking.” (You can read them all here.)
And the good news is that now others have a chance to see it, since “Road to Everywhere” is having its Video-on-Demand release starting today. It is available for streaming on Apple TV, YouTube Movies, Google Play, Amazon, Fandango at Home, and Hoopla (a wonderful site, if you don’t know of it, that’s a sort of consortium of local libraries. All you need to access it is a library card). I'll provide direct links to the film below.
To make clear, it’s not necessary to have seen the original movie in order to follow the sequel. Though Road to Everywhere carries part of one of the plots from Driven, this tells its own standalone story. The movie tells the story of a Los Angeles cab driver, dealing with long-held demons of three decades, who is hired by a local casino dealer who wants to return to the Navajo Reservation he abandoned 30 years before in order to now see his grandson compete in a Native American rodeo.
As I wrote previously, “It’s a terrific work of high quality. Wonderfully written – smart, thoughtful, substantive, good twists and even some humor. And Michael’s direction was excellent, getting very strong performances from his two leads, along with good performances from the secondary characters, which isn’t always the case in indie films -- and with moody cinematography in the nighttime streets of Los Angeles and, most notably, across the desert Southwest that was extremely effective.”
Of course I’m biased for Michael, but it does me no good to praise a film so highly that doesn’t live up to that standard, since that mucks up my credibility. I thought the movie was terrific. And as Rotten Tomatoes shows, I’m not alone.
Here are direct links to "Road to Everywhere" for the Video-on-Demand streaming sites
If you didn't see the trailer previously, here it is again --
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