Gasoline Rainbow

Gasoline Rainbow follows five teenagers from a small town in inland Oregon who, having finished high school, set off in a van with a broken tail light for one last trip together. Their destination is the Pacific coast, roughly five hundred miles away, a place none of them has seen. What drives the story is less a plan than a shared willingness to go and see what happens along the way, and the film stays with the group as they travel.

The film is directed by Bill Ross and Turner Ross, who also wrote the screenplay; the two had already made several features together before this one. The cast, Makai Garza, Micah Bunch, Nichole Dukes, Nathaly Garcia and Tony Aburto, appear under versions of their own first names, giving the journey a documentary-like texture within a fictional framework. It was produced by Michael Gottwald, Carlos Zozaya and Turner Ross, with MUBI, XTR and Department of Motion Pictures behind it, and it runs 111 minutes across the adventure and drama genres.

Released in May 2024, the film has drawn a modest but engaged response. On IMDb it holds a 6.4 rating from around 1,600 votes, while on TMDB it sits at 6 out of 10 from a much smaller pool of 38 votes, suggesting a limited reach alongside a reasonably steady viewer score.