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Love from Ground Zero (1998)

Love from Ground Zero poster
Directed by
Stephen Grynberg
Genre
drama film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 42m
Rating
8.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Three strangers travel across the American back roads with the ashes of a mutual friend. Using old postcards as a map, they drive from New York to Montana retracing the friend's earlier journey out west. Along the way they confront the realities in their own lives that led them to this unpredictable road.

slow-burnmelancholicreflectivecontemplativepoignantwistfulintrospectivebittersweet

What happens

Love from Ground Zero is a 1998 American dramatic road movie directed, written and produced by Stephen Grynberg. It stars Simon Baker, Jacqueline McKenzie, and Pruitt Taylor Vince as it follows three strangers across the back roads of America with the ashes of a mutual friend. Using a series of old postcards as a map, the threesome drive from New York to Montana retracing their friend’s journey “out west” years before. As they try to make sense of the untimely death, they are forced to face the realities in their own lives that have brought them down this unpredictable road. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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