2019 · drama · music
Adopt a Highway
Directed by Logan Marshall-Green1h 21m2019
Russ Millings has just been released from prison after serving 21 years for a 3rd strike conviction for possessing an ounce of marijuana. As he tries to adapt to a world he doesn’t recognize – including trying to learn how to use the internet – he finds an abandoned baby in a dumpster behind the fast food restaurant where he works as a dishwasher. Unsure of what to do, and caught between impulses of kindness and panic, Russ soon realizes this could be his chance at redemption.
Our read: Adopt a Highway (2019) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded drama · music entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Sombre, measured, gentle drama / music, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
- sombre
- measured
- gentle
- redemptive
- tender
- intimate
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