Plot
Two highway road workers spend the summer of 1988 away from their city lives. The isolated landscape becomes a place of misadventure as the men find themselves at odds with each other and the women they left behind.
Release Year: 2013
Rating: 6.5/10 (566 voted)
Director:David Gordon Green
Storyline
Two highway road workers spend the summer of 1988 away from their city lives. The isolated landscape becomes a place of misadventure as the men find themselves at odds with each other and the women they left behind.
Trivia:
Based on a 'minimalist' Icelandic film, the movie was shot in only 16 days. See more »
User Review
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Rating: 8/10
I enjoyed seeing Prince Avalanche at SXSW Film Festival. It is a
peculiar and deceptively simple story of two highway workers in an
isolated area painting the line down the middle of a new highway. The
setting becomes a character as this low-budget movie was filmed in
Bastrop, Texas last summer in the aftermath of the recent fires. Paul
Rudd and Emile Hirsch are really magnificent. Rudd is actually
difficult to recognize and comes off so different than he often does in
his straight comedy roles. This is a dialogue-driven film that in some
ways seems a bit like a stage play. The dialogue and the relationship
between the two leads drives the entire film. The film nicely merges
the comedic nature of both of the ridiculous characters with the
serious nature of the issues that they are dealing with in their
personal lives. The film is far lighter than Rudd's recent turn in
deathly dark Killer Joe, but somewhat more serious than Rudd's big
budget film This is 40. While this sort of small-budget film is
unlikely to get widespread distribution it really showcases the talents
of both of these actors and the importance of good writing and a
beautiful setting.
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