The producers of an independent film, “Commute,” are planning a tour on Route 66 next year to open their film and shoot a documentary.
Here’s the plot summary by co-director Marc Wasserman, as posted on the International Movie Database site:
The film follows the COMMUTER, as he embarks on his daily drive from Orange County to Downtown Los Angeles along Interstate 5 Freeway and California Highway 101. During the commute, he fields phone calls from his office, deals with clients and the pains and aggravations of the most horrific traffic on the West Coast. A satirical look at coping with the ever growing problem of too many cars and not enough road. During his drive, the Commuter finds time to worry, relax and contemplate his life while extending various philosophical views.
And here are the details about the 66 tour and documentary:
The Producers are planning to take to the road and “Commute” from Los Angeles to Oklahoma, in April 2008, starting with a kick-off premiere in LA and driving along historic route 66 while stopping in several small towns to screen the film, ending up at the Bare Bones International Film Festival [in Muskogee, Okla.]. The entire road trip will be part of a documentary surrounding the commuting problems that plague Americans throughout the United States.
If the filmmakers want to spotlight commuting problems along Route 66 from L.A. to Oklahoma, they might be disappointed. Excepting the obvious congestion hell that is Los Angeles, traffic problems from west to east on Route 66 are mild for nearly 2,000 miles, until you reach St. Louis. I’m not the only one who’s made this observation.
Perhaps the filmmakers want towns on Route 66 to provide a counterpart to the mess that is L.A. traffic. But it doesn’t sound that way.
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