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Motorama

1991 · 90 min

A surreal, darkly comic road trip through a twisted America, unsettling and strange, with a child adrift in an adult world.

Directed by
Barry Shils
Genres
Comedy, Adventure
Overview
A ten year old boy gets tired of life with abusive parents and cashes in his piggy bank and steals a Mustang. He rides off into a surreal America playing "Motorama," a game sponsored by Chimera Gas Company. He has various encounters with different people, and eventually reaches the Chimera Gas Company where he finds they are not playing by the rules of the game.

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Directed by
Barry Shils
Genres
Comedy, Adventure
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Tone
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • absurdstrength 3 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 2 of 3
  • eeriestrength 2 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • ambition
  • greed
  • isolation
  • coming-of-age
  • survival
Places
  • road trip
  • countryside
  • big city
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence strong
  • Sex mild
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action4
Horror3
Humour6
Realism3
Romance0
Tension5
Darkness8
Complexity7
Emotional weight6

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