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Coast to Coast (1980)

Coast to Coast poster
Directed by
Joseph Sargent
Genre
comedy drama, romantic comedy
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 35m
Rated
PG
Rating
5.0 of 10 from 9 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A wealthy neurotic woman escapes from a mental hospital and hitches a ride with a moody trucker. They travel across the country while evading bounty hunters and a repo man and fall in love along the way.

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What happens

Coast to Coast is a 1980 American romantic comedy road movie starring Dyan Cannon and Robert Blake, directed by Joseph Sargent. The screenplay was written by Stanley Weiser. The original score was composed by Charles Bernstein. The film was primarily shot in and around Stockton and Farmington, California. It was Blake's first film in six years and first since his popular TV series Baretta left the airwaves. The film follows Madie Levrington, a wealthy neurotic woman who escapes from a New York mental asylum, and hitches a ride back to California with moody down-on-his-luck cowboy trucker Charles Callahan. They fall in love with each other while on the run from bounty hunters and repo man Jules. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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