road movie

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

Example Sentences

Panahi dabbles in the road movie, the revenge thriller, even the “getting the band back together” comedy.

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“Stick,” premiering Wednesday on Apple TV+, is a sweet, lovely, funny show — a sports story, a road movie, a coming-of-age story and briefly a caper film.

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And what about Kieran Culkin going supporting for “A Real Pain,” an odd-couple road movie about two cousins, played by Culkin and the movie’s writer-director, Jesse Eisenberg, traveling to Poland to visit the childhood home of their late grandmother?

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Donning false teeth and a homicidal sneer, Dafoe embodied pure evil in Lynch’s crazed road movie, starring opposite Laura Dern and Nicolas Cage.

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“Anora” also took two of our acting citations, with star Mikey Madison sharing lead performance honors with Marianne Jean-Baptiste from Mike Leigh’s piercing drama “Hard Truths,” while Yura Borisov won supporting performance alongside Kieran Culkin from Jesse Eisenberg‘s odd-couple road movie “A Real Pain.”

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