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Title Route one /USA / a film by Robert Kramer.

Publication Info. [New York, NY] : Icarus Films Home Video, 2019, ©1989.

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 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction DVD  DVD 917.3049 ROUTE    Check Shelf
Description 2 videodisc (255 minutes) : sound (mono), color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 guide, 8 pages
Motion picture.
Note Includes an 8-page booklet with an essay on Robert Kramer by Peter Gessner and a video by Paul McIsaac.
"Restored 2019" -- DVD case
Originally produced in 1989, Les Films D'ici.
Credits Written and directed by Robert Kramer.
Summary In 1988, after years living abroad, renegade filmmaker Robert Kramer returns. "Back," he emphasizes. Not "home." To try to understand the country as it is, he decides to travel the entire length of Route 1, from the Canadian border to Key West, filming all the way. His companion on the trip is Doc--ostensibly Kramer's friend, a brooding physician back after a harrowing decade working in Africa. But in fact, he's a fictional character played by actor Paul McIsaac, a compassionate man who readily engages those he meets, from business owners, to factory workers and to army recruits.For a road movie, ROUTE ONE/USA features few shots of the open road itself. Instead, we are treated to a series of stops along the way--an Indian reserve in Maine, Walden Pond, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington DC, a Georgia diner, Thanksgiving dinner at a homeless shelter, and evangelical churches that preach the "truth" about the anti-apartheid movement and the dangers of Disney. There are plenty of characters along the way too, and appearances by televangelist Pat Robertson and Jesse Jackson, as they campaign for president.It's not just the people who make the film though. Kramer has an extraordinary eye for people, patterns, and industrial processes (you'll never look at Monopoly or tinned sardines the same way again), and his visuals shine through in this beautifully restored edition.Though shot decades ago, ROUTE ONE/USA feels remarkably contemporary in its portrayal of many of the racial, social, and economic challenges America continues to face. -- http://icarusfilms.com/if-route
Credits [Barre Phillips, music ; Richard Copans, producer]
Cast [Paul McIsaac, Pat Robertson, Jesse Jackson, Paul McIsaa, Jillian K. Barber, Jack Flaherty]
System Details DVD
Language English dialogue ; English closed-captioned.
Subject United States Highway 1.
United States -- Civilization.
Gulf States -- Civilization.
Atlantic States -- Civilization.
Civilization. (OCoLC)fst00862898
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
United States -- Atlantic States. (OCoLC)fst01240724
United States -- Gulf States. (OCoLC)fst01240878
United States -- United States Highway 1. (OCoLC)fst01247290
Added Author Kramer, Robert, 1939-1999, author of screenplay, director, film editor, cinematographer.
Phillips, Barre, composer.
Copans, Richard, producer.
Jackson, Jesse, participant.
Robertson, Pat, participant.
McIsaac, Paul, actor.
Barber, Jillian K., actor.
Flaherty, Jack, actor.
Icarus Films Home Video, film distributor.
Standard No. 854565003248
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