MOTORAMA
dir. Barry Shils, 1991.
USA, 90 min.
In English.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2 – 10 PM
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12 – MIDNIGHT
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18 – 10 PM
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 – 7:30 PM

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Gus (Jordan Christopher Michael), a ten year old runaway obsessed with winning $500 million dollars from the collect-‘em-all roadside card game MOTORAMA, cashes in his piggy bank and steals his deadbeat dad’s cherry red Mustang. He bops from gas station to gas station across a cynical, surrealist landscape of rotting Americana, encountering a series of increasingly deranged, violent characters on his way to the Chimera Gas Company’s corporate headquarters to learn the truth about the prize at the end of the highway.

A distinctly nihilistic-in-the-90s black comedy from the dynamic duo who gave the world Nicolas Cage’s delightful performance in VAMPIRE’S KISS four years earlier, Barry Shills (director) and Joseph Minion (writer), MOTORAMA follows young Gus through a picturesque landscape of episodic encounters peppered with cameos from figures such as Dick Miller, Drew Barrymore, Jack Nance, Flea, Meat Loaf, and many more.

Nobody is ever supposed to win MOTORAMA.