Highway 61 (1992)
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Movie Info
Cast
as Pokey Jones
as Jackie Banks
as Mr. Skin/Satan
as Mr. Watson
as Iggy Pup
as Otto
as 1st Customs Agent
as 2nd Customs Agent
as Motorcycle Gang Leader
as Margo
as Claude
as Funeral Director
as Jeffrey--The Corpse
as Nathan/Manservant
as Louise Watson
as Missie Watson
as Minnie Watson
as Mother
as Mother's Little Helper
as Pickerel Falls Reporter
as Pickerel Falls Photographer
as Satan's Neighbor
as Bingo Angry Man
as Bingo Angry Woman
as Bingo Attendant
as Bingo Caller
as Highway Panhandler
as Motel Clerk
as Rock Band Manager
as 1st Rock Band Member
as 2nd Rock Band Member
as 3rd Rock Band Member
as 4th Rock Band Member
as Gun Dealer
as Motel Meat Eater
as Motel Vegetarian
as Bus Driver
as Bus Driver
Critic Reviews for Highway 61
All Critics (6) | Top Critics (1) | Fresh (6) | Rotten (0) | DVD (1)
A diverting episodic look at some eccentric characters on Bob Dylan's Highway 61.
Audience Reviews for Highway 61
Bruce McDonald makes a minor classic helped by the unforgettable McKellar and Buhagiar who meet the most bizarre people in a voyage down a highway and through musical history.
Super Reviewer
When I was a kid, maybe about 10, I had a strange personal experience when - along with my parents and my five-years-younger sister - I saw this movie at the long-since-closed New Yorker Cinema, in London, Ontario, after my parents won four tickets by calling in to the radio station. What I remember is just an uncomfortable feeling: between the gritty urban opening, in which the heroine rips off a Toronto rock band for drug money then buses to the end of the line Northern Ontario, and our dippy hero's discovery of what's called a Rock Star Death in such remote small towns, (a twenty-something dude dead on the ground one morning, from drugs or booze), the premise was a little over my head... And the ensuing lie that she tells - that the stiff was her brother - to get our hero, a lonely and innocent barber, to drive her to New Orleans, not to mention the sex-in-a-graveyard scene, with a guy who seems to be the devil on their tail the whole time. Q: So what did I see this viewing that I didn't last time? A: Everything that requires a sense of irony. The film is, in many ways, a punk rock satire, and though it is Canadian, it gives Bruce McDonald a chance to riff on America, as particularly shown in the only other part I remembered, the encounter with a man whose three daughters are in a going-nowhere family band, all of them named after states (Louise, for Louisiana; Minnie, for Minnesota; and Missie, for Mississippi). Religion is McDonald's primary target here, but money and guns also get their share of scorn, and though there are quite a few good laughs, you'll feel uncomfortable enjoying them. In the end what you get is a film that's dark and desperate and that suffers only slightly from a small budget and immature dialogue... not to mention the meet-up with the old friends in New Orleans, where - like the acid trip in Hard Core Logo - the whole thing goes off the rails for a while. Warts and all, though, It's a Canadian classic, and I'm really glad I re-watched it when I was old enough to understand it: one less thing to tell my therapist about, now...
Super Reviewer
This is a strange movie. A nerdy barber (Pokey) lands up on a road trip from Ontario to New Orleans with a corpse and worldly singer (Jackie) who convinced him to make the trip. All sorts of interesting and strange things happen along the way - visiting Bob Dillon's childhood home, meeting Jackie's former band mates, having a disagreement with Satan, etc. It's a great film.
Super Reviewer
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