Word: trucker
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...gear, by train to Rutland, Vt. Studying his map, he calculated that he could ride the 45 miles to his destination that night. But his map did not show a little local landmark known as Sherburne Pass. After a few miles of steady climbing, he rested and asked a trucker where it leveled off. The answer: After 12 more miles. Ward considered turning back--often. But he pressed on, pushing the bike uphill the last three miles. At the top he felt exhausted--and immensely satisfied. He downed two hearty bowls of clam chowder at the mountaintop Inn at Long...
ALTERNATE ENDING In the original, three young adults on a road trip anger a trucker, who then seeks revenge. The four additional climaxes feature new action scenes; one ending showcases the heroine taking a more active role...
...ride to Venna’s college. As a result of Fuller’s playful influence, Lewis participates in a practical joke, pretending to be a woman and engaging in flirtatious conversation with a lonely truck driver via his car’s CB radio. When the trucker becomes aware of the prank, the joke is on Fuller and Lewis; the rest of the film follows Fuller, Lewis and Venna as they are stalked, hunted and tortured by the angry driver...
...scenes are completely unnecessary. Dahl did not view his film so much as a teen thriller than as part of the great tradition of “road movies,” including films likeEasy Rider and Steven Spielberg’s Duel (similarly about a crazy, road raging trucker). However, this movie’s plot does not allow that distinction to be made. It carries all the gimmicks of the recent horror films, which by now bring groans of boredom as opposed to thrills and chills. Just when things could not get worse, the car runs...
...ashamed," she murmurs. She has stopped going to church. "Every day I ask myself, 'When will I stop this business?' The answer is, 'If I could get a job'..." Her voice trails off hopelessly. "At the present moment, I have no option, no other option." As trucker Chikoka bluntly puts it, "They give sex to eat. They got no man; they got no work; but they got kids, and they got to eat." Two of Thandiwe's friends in the sex trade are dying of AIDS, but what can she do? "I just hope...