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

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Example Sentences

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

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

From Los Angeles Times

“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.

From Los Angeles Times

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?

From Los Angeles Times

“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.”

From Los Angeles Times