Highway 61

REVIEW
A Canadian independent feature, this road comedy contains much of the hip and anarchic humor which distinguishes Jim Jarmusch and Hal Hartley's works. Though not entirely successful in its send-ups and Lynch-like Americana admonishments, there's an abundance of offbeat and wildly satiric jabs at the denizens both on and off the road. McKellar, displaying a charmingly subdued persona, is a staid Canadian small-town barber taken on the ride of his life by "escapee from a heavy metal crew" roadie Buhagiar. En route to New Orleans transporting the dead body she claims to be her brother, and pursued by a man who identifies himself as Satan, the two disparate travelers wind their way down an erratic highway as loopy and disjointed as the eccentrics they meet.