Interstate 60
Short description
Neal Oliver is a young man whose life has been mapped out for him. His wealthy parents expect him to attend a prestigious university and study law, and his girlfriend has her own plans for their future, but Neal wants to paint. When a stranger named O.W. Grant appears and offers to grant him a single wish, Neal asks for answers about the direction his life should take. That wish sends him onto Interstate 60, a highway that appears on no map, heading for a town that does not exist, in search of a woman he has seen only in his dreams. Along the way he meets a series of eccentric characters and unusual detours.
Bob Gale wrote and directed the film, his second feature after Mr. Payback: An Interactive Movie in 1995, and he also produced it alongside Neil Canton and Ira Deutchman. James Marsden plays Neal, with Gary Oldman as the wish-granting O.W. Grant, Amy Smart as Lynn Linden and Christopher Lloyd as Ray. The production had a budget of 7 million dollars and runs 116 minutes.
Audience response has been warm: on IMDb it holds 7.5 out of 10 from around 41,000 votes, and on TMDB 7.4 out of 10 from roughly 832 votes. A quarter-century after its 2002 release, the film remains a well-regarded cult road movie.
What's left behind the scenes
- The film was shot in Phoenix (Arizona, USA) and Toronto (Ontario, Canada).
- The actual filming of the movie was completed in almost a month – from September 18 to October 2000.
- The building number where Neil was supposed to meet Ray is 555. This number is often used in films for fictional objects, phone numbers, and so on.
- The filmmakers wanted to show that when creating the image of O.J. Grant, the authors drew inspiration from the mythology of different countries. Grant is presented as an Irish leprechaun, therefore he is red-haired. The pipe in the shape of a monkey's head comes from Eastern mythology, and the pipe itself can be linked to djinns.
- A professional magician-double performed the card tricks for Christopher Lloyd.
- The clock behind Christopher Lloyd shows 10:04 – that's the time the clock on the tower stopped due to a lightning strike in the 'Back to the Future' trilogy.
- The floor Neil ascends to in the 555 building is 13. The number 13 also appears in the scene with the girl on the road – Neil’s room number would be 2461 (2+4+6+1=13).
- When Neil first sees his gift – a new red BMW 328i – the music playing in this scene is very similar to the music used in the film “Back to the Future” (1985) when Marty opens the garage door and sees a new car there.
- The courthouse building in the town of Morlaw displays a coat of arms with a distorted American motto: “In law we trust.” The town’s name can be read as “more law.”
- Neil wakes up in the hospital on September 18th at 7:25 PM on a Tuesday (visible on the hospital clock), which is the day filming began.
- The initials of one of the main characters in the film – O. J. Grant – stand for “One Wish Grant.”
- Filming began on September 18, 2000. In the opening scene, Neil Oliver says, "As for me, it all started on September 18th, on my birthday." James Marsden, who played him, was actually born on September 18th.
- The film Sally (Melissa Ed) watches after the restaurant is "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" (1977).
- At the beginning of the film, James Marsden’s character has an X-MEN comic on the table. Later, James Marsden played the mutant Cyclops in several installments of "X-Men".
Auditions in India
Casting calls in USA
Castingi w Polsce
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