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road movie

British  

noun

  1. a genre of film in which the chief character is on the run or travelling in search of, or to escape from, himself

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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One of Mr. Laxe’s acknowledged influences in creating this desert-set road movie is “Mad Max,” though that film builds its dystopian world with a resourceful imagination that’s missing here.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 13, 2025

This fact that reminds me of the moment in “Kings of the Road,” the 1976 Wim Wenders road movie, when a character says, “The Yanks have colonized our subconscious.”

From New York Times • May 24, 2024

How do you make a new quintessential American road movie that doubles as a beautifully shot portrait of modern youth?

From Seattle Times • May 16, 2024

Goulet: Episode 301 really felt to me like a road movie.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 30, 2023

The first was a road movie from the early seventies, about a man who leaves his wife to drive cross-country.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

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