Overlong at 121 minutes (at the very least, those indulgent excerpts from "The Lady Eve," "The Seventh Seal" and "Spirit of the Beehive" could be cut), this film will thoroughly exhaust most viewers' patience. "Road to Nowhere" could be enjoyable if - like Lynch - Hellman was a more stylized filmmaker, but this conspicuously flat work not only lacks striking camera movement but doesn't even have a musical score. An under-known figure of American independent film, Monte Hellman reignited his career as a director after a 21 year absence with Road to Nowhere. It's all quite confusing, and not interesting enough to worry about. Meanwhile, a story consultant and insurance investigator (Waylon Payne) is equally fixated on Laurel, and believes she is secretly portraying herself after switching identities to avoid capture. As shooting continues, Mitchell and Laurel becomes lovers and this compromises the project - smitten Mitchell begins skewing scenes toward his lady, much to the dismay of the screenwriter and other cast members (Cliff De Young plays her older co-star). ROAD TO NOWHERE (2010) is a thing of beauty that captures mundane Los Angeles interiors, exotic European locales and backwoods North Carolina with equal. Well, unless you count Sossamon's stunningly photogenic face. Scenes occur both inside and outside the fictional film without adequate warning, and this arty ambiguity is as about as far as the movie's pleasures go. This film-within-a-film aims to be a David Lynch-like puzzle in which alter-ego director Mitchell Haven (Tygh Runyan) casts troubled novice Laurel Graham (Shannyn Sossamon) in his erratic dramatization of a true story about a doomed, con-artist couple. 'Settlement for North Shore Road will bring 52 million to Swain County.' February 3, 2010. Additional Resources: Williams, Margaret. In The Way Back, several prisoners escape from a Siberian prison in 1940 and wander aimlessly through the wilderness until they reach India. Hard to believe "Road to Nowhere" is what lured director Monte Hellman back to feature films after a 22-year break. Several hiking trails, like the approximately 44-mile Lakeshore Trail, lead from the road to some of the highlights of the park, including its highest peak, Clingmans Dome, reached by Noland Creek Trail.
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